2 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: The world's largest solar energy dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center in Sde Boker, Israel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Sun shows a C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right) and multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: First light image from Solar Dynamics Observatory. "Soon after the instruments opened their doors, the Sun began performing for SDO with this beautiful prominence eruption. This AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) data is from March 30, 2010, showing a wavelength band that is centered around 304 Å. This extreme ultraviolet emission line is from singly ionized Helium, or He II, and corresponds to a temperature of approx. 50,000 degrees Celsius." (NASA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Israel's "Security Fence", "West Bank Barrier", is a solid wall along 5% of it's length. 10 meters high and reinforced concrete. Español: El muro de hormigón supone alrededor del 5% del trazado total de la barrera de separación. Français : La "Barrière de sécurité" construite par Israël en Cisjordanie prend l'aspect d'un mur de 10 mètres de haut constitué de dalles de béton armé sur 5% de son tracé. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Israel Defense Forces armored Caterpillar D9R bulldozer, in Yad LaShiryon Museum, Israel's 60th Independence Day , Israel דחפור די-9 משוריין ביד לשריון, חגיגות יום העצמאות ה-60 למדינת ישראל דחפור די-9 משוריין. צילמו: אני וצחי אבנור IDF D9 bulldozer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The Solar Dynamics Observatory insignia. It reads "Our eye on the sun" HMI, AIA, EVE (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wired - Science

• Fantastic New Video Shows Huge Eruption on the Sun
  A spectacular new video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a dramatic filament eruption on the sun on Aug. 31.
• Watch Live: Amazing Images of Blue Moon and a ...
  Tonight's blue moon will dazzle viewers all over the world. But for a truly unique experience, watch this live Slooh Space Camera show to get incredible telescopic close-ups of the lunar surface and a special tribute to Neil Armstrong starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.
• High-Res Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand o ...
  Zoom in on every pebble and stone around the Curiosity rover in this amazing high-resolution interactive panorama taken on Mars.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Big Star ...
  If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
• Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life
  In a stunning technical feat, an international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an archaic Siberian girl 31 times over, using a new method that amplifies single strands of DNA. The sequencing is so complete that researchers have as sharp a picture of this ancient genome as they wou ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Report: US scales back joint military exercise ...
  Time Magazine reports number of American troops in mid-October exercise to be cut by two-thirds, in what a senior Israeli official says is a message of mistrust conveyed by Washington. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
• Gideon Levy: Arab villages, bulldozed from our ...
  Our beloved Tel Aviv, whose reputation for enlightenment and openness is world renowned, is built in part on ruined Palestinian villages - and refuses to acknowledge it. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. G ...
• Sami Michael: An immigrant in his own country
  The Occupation is the embodiment of disaster for Israel. Greater Israel, the enthusiasm to conquer, rule and colonize in the very heart of a dense Palestinian population, that sweeping wave was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Stephen Zunes: California state assembly seeks ...
  The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Probing the bureaucracy of occupation
  Yael Berda: "The administrative flexibility, waste of resources and the frequent administrative friction that is part of granting work permits leads to two desired results in the governmental system.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Warships Visit Japan
  A Russian Navy group has visited Japan’s naval base Maizuru and is on its way to the home port of Vladivostok, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Saturday.
• Putin: Russia Ready to Draw on Foreign Defense ...
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the country was ready to use foreign military technology but said a situation where Russian plants would only assemble imported parts was "unacceptable."
• Russia Develops Underwater Drones
  Russia is developing underwater drones for special tasks, a senior defense industry official said on Friday.
• Russia to Develop Naval Equivalent of U.S. Aeg ...
  Russia is set to develop a sea-based missile defense program similar to the U.S. Aegis system, a senior defense industry official said on Friday.
• Borey Class Subs to be Deployed in Russian Nor ...
  Two Borey class strategic nuclear-powered submarines, the Yuri Dolgoruky and the Alexander Nevsky, will enter service with the Russian Navy, one with the North Fleet and the other with the Pacific Fleet, Anatoly Shlemov, head of defense contracts at the United Shipbuilding Corporation, said on F ...

NewsWise

• Can't Smell Anything? This Discovery May Giv ...
  Scientists have restored the sense of smell in mice through gene therapy for the first time -- a hopeful sign for people who can't smell anything from birth or lose it due to disease. The achievement in curing congenital anosmia may also aid research on other conditions that also stem from probl ...
• Heavy Drinking Rewires Brain, Increasing Susce ...
  After chronic alcohol exposure, mice are unable to control a learned fear response, shedding light on the link between alcoholism and anxiety problems like post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Anti-HIV Drug Simulation Offers 'Realistic' To ...
  Pooling data from thousands of tests of the antiviral activity of more than 20 commonly used anti-HIV drugs, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities have developed what they say is the first accurate computer simulation to explain drug effects. Already, the model clarifies how an ...
• September is Interstitial Cystitis & Bladder P ...
  "We Stand Together" is the theme for the 2012 Interstitial Cystitis & Bladder Pain (IC/BPS) Awareness Month campaign, mobilizing patients from the USA and abroad in requesting respect, compassionate care and a cure for this puzzling pelvic pain condition.
• North Carolina Political Experts for DNC Cover ...

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• My Response to Ken About Bin Laden’s Death
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A recent post at Mother Jones mentions my view of UBL’s killing and provides my fellow blogger’s response to it: Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University Washington School of Law, disagrees. “Being wounded does not neces ...
• My Response to Ken About Bin Laden’s Death
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A recent post at Mother Jones mentions my view of UBL’s killing and provides my fellow blogger’s response to it: Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University Washington School of Law, disagrees. “Being wounded does not neces ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 31, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey France and the United Kingdom reported at the Security Council that all options are on the table regarding Syria. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that he will speak on Iran at the UN General Assembly in a speech next month. An I ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 31, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey France and the United Kingdom reported at the Security Council that all options are on the table regarding Syria. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that he will speak on Iran at the UN General Assembly in a speech next month. An I ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 30, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni has said that Iran will never pursue a nuclear weapon, but will not give up its right to peaceful energy at the summit for the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran.  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has asked the l ...

Public News Service

• Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nu ...
  Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nuclear TAMPA, Fla. - The people watching money in politics say the fundraising arms race has gone nuclear. Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, was an observer at the Republican National Convention. ...(Read More)
• Poll: AZ Remains in Top Third of States for Fo ...
  Poll: AZ Remains in Top Third of States for Food Hardship PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona remains in the top third of states for food hardship in a Gallup survey about families' health and well-being. The findings confirm what Arizona food banks see every day as they help cobble together assistance for ...
• GOP Courts Women's Vote at Convention
  GOP Courts Women's Vote at Convention TAMPA, Fla. - With President Obama leading in the polls among women voters and gaffes such as the “legitimate rape” comment to overcome, political strategists say the Republican National Committee is working hard to court women voters. Democrats ...
• Young People Work to Boost Latino AZ Primary T ...
  Young People Work to Boost Latino AZ Primary Turnout PHOENIX - Hundreds of young Latino volunteers with the group "Promise Arizona in Action" (PAZ in Action) have spent the summer registering more than 8,400 new voters across the state. During today's primary election, they are making sure those ...
• What You Might Not Know About Generic Drugs
  What You Might Not Know About Generic Drugs PHOENIX - Across the country, dozens of lawsuits against manufacturers of generic drugs have been dismissed because of a decision by the Supreme Court a year ago that makes it all but impossible to sue the firms for failing to provide adequate warning ...

Center for Food Safety

• Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Stay, Canola Pl ...
  Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...
• Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Targets FDA, OM ...
  Food Safety and Modernization Act rules unlawfully delayed as risks increase, public health threatened The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) today filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their failure to im ...
• USDA-Appointed Committee’s Recommendations Fai ...
  Proposed AC21 “co-existence” policy would harm conventional growers, endanger U.S. organic industry The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) issued a position paper today critical of proposals made by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), a group appointed ...
• Feds Playing Politics with Food Safety is Enou ...
  By Michele Simon Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction Goals • USDA to purchase $170 million worth of meat to help farmers struggling w ...
• Center for Food Safety Statement on the Oregon ...
  The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) is pleased to announce that the legal action filed yesterday at the State of Oregon’s Court of Appeals requesting an immediate stay on illegal planting of genetically engineered (GE) canola in the Willamette Valley was successful. The Court found suffici ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
• House Hopping
  House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
• Buying Property
  Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
• IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
  IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
• Real Estate Investing Myths
  Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
• Disney-Pixar Pollution
  For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
• Grain
  I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
• Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
  I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
• The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
  An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• The Vitamin D Briefing
  HASH(0x5051b40)
• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
  HASH(0x1da7310)
• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
  HASH(0x5c281f8)
• Chemical linked to low IQ found in sunscreens
  HASH(0x4598aa8)
• Kahui coroner’s verdict out this week
  HASH(0x4dd9558)

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
• A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
  in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
• Susya
  June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
• My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
  Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Renewable energy policy too partisan says sola ...
  Renewable energy tax breaks are not permanent yet oil and gas credits never expire. This is unfair says Joel Cannon, CEO of a solar panel company in Minnesota. We need to change our renewable energy policy.That could change under a bill supported by Minnesota’s two U.S. senators. It would ...
• Electric motorcycle: not cheap, kicks ass
  Gas 2.0 has more on the $38,000 Lightning Motorcycles’ barely street legal electric beast capable of 218 mph.Motorcycle.com gave one of its writer/riders a chance to take the Lightning for a spin. His review can be summed up in six words; “Oh my god that is so fast!”
• Priest blames child sex victims for seducing t ...
  Here’s what the good priest, Father Benedict Groeschel, had to say on National Catholic Register about child sex victims before they took down the article and apologized profusely after the predictable storm of outrage. But yet to be explained is why it was published at all.A lot of the ca ...
• I remember when the blogosphere had people in it
  From Gaping Void Art!
• Mia Love: Black woman speaker at RNC has Wikip ...
  Mia Love, a black woman and mayor of Saratoga Springs UT, spoke at the RNC. Her Wikipedia page was then filled with racist, misogynistic slurs.The hard right has been on the story, using it as a way to attack the left. But without excusing the attack, it wasn’t The Left that did it [...]

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

• The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012
  Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...
• Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...
  What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!     The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
• More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...
  What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted  / regulated.  By the time regular folks find out it will ...
• “The Great Culling” Official Water ...
  Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
• Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...
  Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

The Air Vent

• Simulated Universe
  Calculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html
• NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?
  From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere.   Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.

Focal Point

• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook re-opens notifications channel for de ...
  Facebook has launched the new Notifications API beta giving developers a way to reengage users with custom messages through the native notifications channel. These notifications are different from app requests in that users do not need to allow further permissions to … Continue reading →
• Facebook to increase automated efforts to remo ...
  Facebook has updated its integrity systems in order to prevent false Likes, according to the Facebook Security page. This upgrade looks to improve the authenticity of the social network, providing pages with more accurate measurement of fan counts and demographics. … Continue reading →
• Word of Mouth at Scale with Facebook: Understa ...
  This is a guest post by Hussein Fazal, CEO of AdParlor, an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Groupon, Audi, American Express, OMD, Mindshare & … Continue reading →
• Bing continues to expand Facebook integration ...
  Bing has added a new feature which allows users to search through their friends’ Facebook photos directly within the search engine. Users can access this through the Bing social sidebar or at www.bing.com/friendsphotos. With a reported 300 million photos uploaded to … Continue readin ...
• Facebook careers: FBX, financial planning, int ...
  Facebook added 11 new positions to its careers page this week, including a second opening focused on the Facebook Exchange program (FBX). The company is also looking for more vertical-specific account managers, software and hardware engineers, as well as a … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: A Roadmap to the Future of Juvenile ...
  truthout: A Roadmap to the Future of Juvenile Justice http://t.co/cCeltfDx
• truthout: Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things ...
  truthout: Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On http://t.co/NhDzAalR
• truthout: Financialized Agriculture: The New R ...
  truthout: Financialized Agriculture: The New Realm of Social Activism http://t.co/yPYSLeoj
• truthout: Drones: A New Death From Above http: ...
  truthout: Drones: A New Death From Above http://t.co/t9BFI1NK
• truthout: The People Behind the Parties - and ...
  truthout: The People Behind the Parties - and the Democratic Party - at the DNC http://t.co/dWfXGG6O #DNC by @Steve_Horn1022

ReDress News

• Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
• Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
• Domestic terrorism American style
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
• Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
  Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
• Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
  Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
  Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
• Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
    The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
• European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
  Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
• Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
  The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
• Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
  Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #90: The Erosion of US Constitution
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern returns to our show to discuss the erosion of the US Constitution and the absence of public outrage, the illegality of and the expected backlash from US drone strikes, the clear contradiction between the US/Israeli intellige ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bruce Springsteen-“Streets of Philadelphia” Tonight’s BFP/Jamiol Music pick is Bruce Springsteen’s haunting Streets of Philadelphia. Springsteen wrote and performed the song for the 1993 film Philadelphia…the first mainstream film that dealt HIV/AIDS. The song won an Oscar for Spring ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Political Language & the Debt Crisis George Orwell wrote that political language is meant to give “solidity to pure wind.” Are politicians and economists simply liars? Or do they speak a different language? Using the example of the European debt crisis, we are able to actually t ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• 270 South African miners charged with murder o ...
  This is outrageous! How far the ANC has fallen! Murder charges stun and enrage South African miners South Africa’s Mine Massacre Reveals Ugly Realities Squalor surrounds South Africa’s platinum treasure chest Mnikelo Ndabankulu speaks at Marikana memorial service (video) Lonmin
• “Between Truths and Indulgences” b ...
  Repost inspired by this commentary from Sis. Carolyn Moon: “The difference that I’m noticing more now and it’s a perception which I’m sure can be debated but there is this extreme animus towards the various countries on the continent of Africa and their historical role in promoting the tri ...
• The scourge of NGO’s in Haiti: why the r ...
• African American Arrogance 2: The Audacity of ...
  Allow me to present these questions to you directly: 1.  What is your position, and more specifically, what do you suggest as an alternative to voting for the president, and 2.  If you are a non-African American living in Canada, what dog do you have in this fight? What is your purpose of arguin ...

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

• Sonic boon
  A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
• The secret’s in the sauce
  What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
• Clean water, clean energy
  In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
• Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
  Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
• A winter’s tale
  Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

• Labor Day 2012 and the Election of 2012: It's ...
  The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top -- among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people -- and the steady decline of the great American middle class.
• Master of Mischief
  The most important sector of our foreign affairs concerns the relationship with the United States. Indeed, this is so important that Binyamin Netanyahu keeps it entirely to himself. Our ambassador in Washington reports to him personally, after being handpicked by Sheldon Adelson, the casino bill ...
• Bloc Party: Pantomime and Power in the Imperia ...
  The Obama Administration announced on Thursday that it would not prosecute anyone -- no one at all -- for the murder of two prisoners in American's Terror War gulags several years ago. The one CIA agent who revealed the names of people who tortured captives is being prosecuted with the full for ...
• Romney World's Freedom from Fact
  The Republican National Convention offered a look into one alternate future for America, a place where the ultimate liberty is to be fact-free. Mitt Romney's campaign set sail confidently toward that future trusting that a plurality of Americans who will vote (or be allowed to vote) is onboard, ...
• Progressive Journalist Steven Rosenfeld on Inf ...
  What their movement's public intellectuals are doing is misguiding and miseducating their ranks to interpret everything that can and does go wrong as a Democratic-led political conspiracy.We can hope that after the election that they will realize that what's wrong with America's voting system ha ...

Switchboard

• India Environmental News Compilation, August 2 ...
  Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Ministry Objects to Panel’s Climate Draft, Funds Proposal “The Environment Ministry has asked the Planning Commission to re-write the ent ...
• Team NRDC gears up for Climate Ride - 320 mile ...
  Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco One week from tomorrow, the eleven riders that make up Team NRDC will embark on Climate Ride, a 320-mile bicycle journey that starts near Eureka and makes its way down the North C ...
• Wyoming Wolves and the Fish & Wildlife DisServ ...
  Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Today the Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing the end of endangered species protections for wolves in the state of Wyoming. Normally, the ‘recovery’ of a species from the endangered spe ...
• Fuel Efficiency Ushers in a "New" Golden Age C ...
  Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco I wouldn’t call myself a car lover necessarily. At least not compared to someone I know - my father. I grew up knowing that his love for the automobile was something deep and long lasting. His ...
• Obama Administration Considering Extending She ...
  Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC With BSEE’s (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement) announcement Thursday that despite the company’s lack of a tested oil containment system on-site, it ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Failing Upward
  I’m really glad the Times is publishing puff pieces detailing how our plutocrats land on their feet, no matter what horrible things they do. Like the first Gilded Age, failure is rewarded handsomely if you are a member of the elite in the second Gilded Age.
• The Rust Belt in a Nutshell
  Ouch. I do have some optimism for Cleveland, but that map presents a grim picture for the region.
• Shulamith Firestone, RIP
  We’ve been remiss here at not noting the death of the great Shulamith Firestone. Although her life ended up in a sad decline of mental illness and death by cancer, Firestone shown bright in the early 1970s as a groundbreaking radical feminist, connecting patriarchy to the many problems of ...
• What, No Blackface?
  Civil War reenactors are, by and large, a depressing lot: Some re-enactors have formed camp bands to play music that soldiers enjoyed hearing around battlefield campfires. The most popular tunes included songs from the minstrel stage. Groups such as the 2nd South Carolina String Band pride thems ...
• This Day in Labor History: September 2, 1885
  On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town’s entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre, demonstrated the power of white supremacy to the Gilded Age white working class, and is a prime exa ...

Desert Research Institute

• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
• DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
  The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
• DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
  The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  

Earth Techling

• FreshPaper Lets Your Summer Produce Live Longer
• The Postgreen Take On The Urban Garage
• Shedding Light On The Solar Decathlon 2013 Teams
• Wind Energy A Lifeline For Drought-Stricken Farms
• California Community Solar Bill Bites The Dust

National Law Journal | U.S.

• The Equity Gap: A Special Report on Women in t ...
  Are big firms committed to promoting women into the equity partnership? Our study of the largest U.S. firms shows that women represent just 15 percent of equity partners. At just five firms surveyed, women make up more than 25 percent of equity partners.
• THE 2012 SURVEY OF LAW FIRM ECONOMICS
  Law firms, particularly midsize and smaller players, continued to face a challenging revenue picture during the last year, our latest survey of firm finances shows. But they appear to have done a better job of managing expenses to keep profitability and partner compensation high.
• Back to the Land
  The lower 48 states just completed the hottest month on record, following the warmest 12-month period on record. The Midwest's farm economy has been left staggering. In our latest regional report card, we examine the implications for the region's legal profession — and took a side trip to W ...
• Inside Washington
  A by-the-numbers look at law and lobbying in the nation's capital. • The Legal Times 150 • The Influence 50 • The Hill Hot List
• THE CAREERIST: Minority GC rates hit all-time high
  According to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, that elite circle now includes 47 minorities, four more than in 2010. That sounds great — until you realize that minority general counsel rates are still below the 10 percent mark.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
  The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
• New State Impact PA App
  Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
• OilandGasHelp.com
  I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
• The Passage of House Bill 1950…
  I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
• Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
  From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

• Around 680 Ashraf Residents Ready to Move to L ...
  Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,
• US Disappointed Over Pardon of Azerbaijani Soldier
  Mr. Safarov had been serving a life sentence for the 2004 murder in Hungary. He was convicted for brutally killing an Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan during a 2004 NATO exercise in Hungary.
• Spain's UNICEF Ambassador Pau Gasol Visits Chad
  The small village of Miouh has been the location for a feeding centre where a water well has been installed, schools are being supported by training teachers and supplies are being distributed.
• Thousands of Syrian Refugees Arrive in Lebanon
  Mr. Edwards reports that UNHCR is adding new telephone hotlines to help the increasing number of refugees seeking to register.
• California Slaughterhouse Reopens: Triumph of ...
  California Slaughterhouse Reopens with Vow to Not Suffocate Animals or Shock Them in the Face

environment 360

• EU Ban on Incandescent Bulbs Goes into Effect ...
  The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...
• Better Use of Fertilizer and Water Can Feed Gr ...
  A new study suggests that the the world can meet the surging demand for food in the coming decades without rampant deforestation if farmers make better use of fertilizer and water resources. In an analysis of management practices and yield data for 17 major crops worldwide, researchers from McG ...
• Brazilian Deforestation Falls Sharply in Past ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 77 percent from 2004 to 2011, but carbon emissions did not drop as steeply because of complex processes revealed during on-the-ground studies, scientists say. While analysis of satellite images showed the three-quarters drop in deforestation, researc ...
• Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
  Scientists say this year’s record declines in Arctic sea ice extent and volume are powerful evidence that the giant cap of ice at the top of the planet is on a trajectory to largely disappear in summer within a decade or two, with profound global consequences. BY FEN MONTAIGNE
• India Approves $4 Billion Plan to Add 6 Millio ...
  The government of India has approved a 230-billion rupee strategy ($4.13 billion) to spur increased production of electric and hybrid vehicles over the next eight years, setting a target of 6 million green vehicles by 2020. The new plan, designed to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels a ...

Red Ice Creations

• Man Builds Himself Bionic Hands After Losing B ...
  You may wonder how did he make himself a pair of bionic hands when he actually doesn’t have hands. Well, he just did it. He named Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing. Since the prosthetic limbs would cost a fortune, he decided to ...
• Ecuador grants Assange asylum; UK vows to ‘car ...
  Ecuador’s foreign minister announced on Thursday that the country would grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defying threats by the British government to storm the Ecuadorean Embassy and extradite Assange to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning in cases of alleged rape and sex ...
• Holder went on ‘Reefer Madness’-like campaign ...
  In late 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against marijuana dispensaries in California, where medicinal marijuana is legal, in an effort to create a distraction from the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a new book set for release Tuesday claims. “Eri ...
• Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel New Show ...
  Critics say show promotes an “inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence” Nine Nobel Peace Laureates on Monday joined a growing chorus of critics calling on NBC entertainment to cancel the new “reality” show—“Stars Earn Stripes”—saying that “war isn’t entertainment” and challenged ...
• Why Do Koalas Have Human Fingerprints?
  Some accuse evolution of being pretty directionless. After all, the whole process involves random genetic mutations. But if evolution is just a toss of a million-sided die, why do so many animals turn out eerily similar? Nope, it’s not intelligent design. We take a look at the creepy look-alikes ...

Russia Today

• A closer look at the Universe: World’s largest ...
  Russian and German scientists have kicked off an ambitious plan to create a massive Gamma Ray Observatory in the heart of Siberia in hopes of unlocking the manifold secrets of the Universe. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon dies ...
  Self-proclaimed messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement, has died aged 92 due to complications from pneumonia. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Aces low: Russian fighter jet buzzes highway d ...
  Have you ever seen a supersonic attack aircraft roar right over your head? A driver in southern Russia had this exact experience when an SU-24 warplane flew just a few dozen meters over his vehicle. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Prague’s homeless take tourists off the beaten ...
  Prague's homeless have found a way to profit from the city’s flourishing tourism industry: By offering an alternative to mainstream tour guides. The unorthodox chaperones show visitors another side to the city, from the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Twin bombings targeting security service build ...
  Twin blasts have rocked the Abu Rummaneh district in central Damascus. The explosions reportedly targeted buildings in the city’s security area. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• US Troops Out of Guatemala Now!
  One cannot think of a more disgusting military in the Americas than that of the country of Guatemala for the US to be cooperating with in joint operations! US Out of Guatemala Now! Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala The internal journals of the US Marine Corps have been brag ...
• NMT’s friendly coverage of the lovely An ...
  First we have Ann and son speaking up for themselves… Ann and Craig Romney – We're an immigrant family but not latino -Aren’t they both just lovely? And then we also have this miserable stinking PERVERT Democrat speaking about Ann… Loco Mama on ANN ROMNEY! _____ I re ...
• Time For a Raise!
  What’s stopping our nation’s business class pigs who rule over the rest of us? It’s time for a raise! Demand a Higher Minimum Raise Now
• Bully cops of LA get caught beating up a 5&#82 ...
  Apparently nothing much has changed in Los Angeles from the days of their assault on Rodney King. Cop culture in the US is much like soldier culture in the US. Both are atrocity prone. Brutal LAPD arrest of Michelle Jordan
• Todd Akin vesus Barack Obama on Rape
  Politics is never very pretty… Rape is Rape … Except When You're a Female Detainee- When Obama Whitewashed Rape

Debunking the Debunkers

• C2CAM - 9-11 Truth - Coast To Coast AM
  9/11 material starts at 0:39:27 Published on Jul 17, 2012 by Boomdaddy03 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST UPDATED VIDEO THAT CAME OUT TODAY http://www.youtube.com/user/Boomdaddy03 Subscribe To Get Notified Of The Latest Releases As They Come Out http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Graeme MacQueen Interview (8/ ...
  Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...
• COME TO NEW YORK THIS SEPTEMBER
  It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...
• Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's New Book 'DemoCRI ...
  Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...
• "9/11: Experts Speak Out" Premieres in Texas T ...
  When: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:00pm (MDT), with encore airings on Channel 12.1. Live Streaming and Details: Of special interest, CPT12 will be streaming this important event over the internet through Sunday, September 2, 2012 at: www.cpt12.org/911ExplosiveEvidence. Details of encore airings ...

Fooducate

• Want to be Sexy? Eat Veggies with Cartenoids
• “Secrets” of Lower-Calorie Wine Spritzers
• Here’s How Coke is Buying the Silence of Healt ...
• Eat Your Greens When They’re Young, VERY Young
• An Omnivore and a Vegetarian Walk into a Bar…

Traffikd

• Twitter Step by Step
  Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
• SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
  When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
• How To Choose Keywords
  Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
• Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
  So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
• How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
  Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

• Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...
  Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
• Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
  The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
• Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
  Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
• Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
  Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
• Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
  Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...

Greg Palast

• Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
  by Greg Palast If you're not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don't talk to me. When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Paul Ryan talk to America like he's some kind of Boy Scout, I want a gun, or a TV network where I can [...]
• RNC Opens with Pol who "Should be in Jail"
  by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...
• Fukushima: They Knew
  "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
• Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
  Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
  Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
  Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
  Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
• She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
  Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
• How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
  Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

• Eyes Locked
  By Cathy Jameson “There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.” -G. K. Chesterton I had the luxury of going out by myself on a Saturday this summer. I could have gone...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Do MMR + Hg + SSPE ...
  By Dan Olmsted "I wonder whether autistic enterocolitis isn’t a kind of SSPE with a weakened (vaccine) virus," Kathy Blanco wrote in an e-mail this week, with a link to a blog post HERE that reports: "Hidden government documents have...
• Happy Labor Day Weekend!
  By LJ Goes Happy September 1st! The Rev, here! Please take a few moments to listen to my interview with the lovely and compelling host of Breathing Underwater Radio, Beth Kuklinski. This is the story of my family's journey to...
• Government NIH only 5% of Budget on Environme ...
  By Katie Wright Accountability at IACC! Thanks to the incredible, and I mean incredible, work of Dr. Susan Daniels’ IACC team the IACC audience were all treated to a wonderful presentation detailing the exact breakdown of how all NIH autism...
• The Pain You Can’t See
  By Natalie Palumbo Early in the summer, I received a letter notifying me that my school district was honoring me for ‘My Career Dreams’ poster during the June district meeting. My entry for the National Career Development Poster Contest had...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• These Brands Want To Defeat GMO Labeling In Ca ...
  Want to know the latest anti-labeling contributors fighting our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food? Thanks to Jon Abrahamson, here is the latest info.
• Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails 2012: Jeffrey ...
  "Are Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops Akin to Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Jeffrey Smith
• WHY in the World are They Spraying? FULL LENGT ...
  Watch the full length version of WHY in the World are They Spraying? free online.
• Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
  Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!
• Mothers To Regulators: We Will Not Comply!
  On August 18, 2012 a group of mothers and others, members of the advocacy groups, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day, will take their raw milk and lemonade to the lawn of the US Capitol to celebrate their right to “voluntary exchange.”

Open Your Eyes News

• Study gives new insight on inflammation
  EurekAlert – Scientists’ discovery of an important step in the body’s process for healing wounds may lead to a new way of treating inflammation. A study published today in Current Biology details how an international team of researchers led by Monash University’s Australi ...
• How YOU can help Open Your Eyes News
  Send us links to pertinent mainstream news articles that you spot Follow us via Twitter, become a fan onFacebook, subscribe to our  Podcast channel and encourage your friends to do the same Join our mailing list and receive our comprehensive weekly news review e-mail Post comments on the Open Yo ...
• Markets pick up as Fed chairman signals possib ...
  Guardian – US central bank chief Ben Bernanke sparked a surge in share values on Friday after he signalled his willingness to embark on a third phase of money creation to boost the US economy. The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day with a gain of 90 points after the chairman of th ...
• Venezuela to investigate reports of massacre o ...
  The Venezuelan government says it is investigating allegations that unauthorized Brazilian gold miners killed dozens of Yanomami Indians in an attack in the Venezuelan Amazon. The announcement Wednesday followed calls for action this week by a Yanomami organization and other indigenous groups. T ...
• More Infants Born Addicted to Prescription Drugs
  Live Science – Instead of the healthy cries of newborns, hospitals are now hearing an increase in shrieking just after birth — just one sign in a rising epidemic of infants born addicted to prescription drugs. Nationally, the rate of newborns suffering withdrawal, or “neonatal ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
  One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
• Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
  Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
• Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
  As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
• EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
• Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
  Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

• Change Ten Lives
  It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
• Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!
  Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.
• A Promise to Haiti
  Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.
• Urban water collection in Haiti
  No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
• Community Latrines in India
  Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more

News Blaze

• Around 680 Ashraf Residents Ready to Move to L ...
  Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,
• US Disappointed Over Pardon of Azerbaijani Soldier
  Mr. Safarov had been serving a life sentence for the 2004 murder in Hungary. He was convicted for brutally killing an Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan during a 2004 NATO exercise in Hungary.
• Spain's UNICEF Ambassador Pau Gasol Visits Chad
  The small village of Miouh has been the location for a feeding centre where a water well has been installed, schools are being supported by training teachers and supplies are being distributed.
• Thousands of Syrian Refugees Arrive in Lebanon
  Mr. Edwards reports that UNHCR is adding new telephone hotlines to help the increasing number of refugees seeking to register.
• California Slaughterhouse Reopens: Triumph of ...
  California Slaughterhouse Reopens with Vow to Not Suffocate Animals or Shock Them in the Face

Worldnews

• Shah Rukh Khan 'shooting under heavy secu ...
  Shah Rukh Khan is said to be shooting under heavy security in the Pahalgam region of Kashmir. Local residents and tourists claim that Yash Chopra's production house has turned the area into a "fortress", reports Greater Kashmir. "Because of the shooting, the tourist rush to this place has th ...
• President must dissolve parliament immedi ...
  Article by WN.com Guest Writer Ali Abbas Hasanie, Political analyst and scholar, Montreal, Canada ON March 18, 2013 the current parliament will complete its five years term, however, the growing confrontation between Government and the Judiciary as well as the defiance by national institutio ...
• Etihad boosts Virgin Australia stake to 1 ...
  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Abu Dhabi's fast-growing Etihad Airways says it has increased its stake in Virgin...
• Obama regains narrow lead over Romney
  A modest rise in popularity for US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney from the recent Republican Party convention looks to be shortlived, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Democratic President Barack Obama regained a narrow lead on Saturday by 44 per cent to 43 per cent over his Republican ch ...
• Maradona remains in Dubai as sports 'amba ...
  Diego Maradona is not done with Dubai. The Argentine football legend said Sunday that he has signed one-year contract to become a special sports adviser to the Dubai Sports Council. The announcement comes less than two months after Maradona was fired as coach for the Dubai club Al Wasl follo ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Treatment of ADHD in Women
  Treatment for women with ADHD is often made more complex by the normal hormonal changes women experience. It is important for you and your doctor to understand the effects these hormonal fluctuations, particularly estrogen levels, can have on your ADHD symptoms. Treatment for Women With A ...
• Promiscuity Alters DNA and Boosts Immunity In Mice
  An anonymous reader writes "Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley found that promiscuous mice have significantly stronger immune systems than monogamous mice, suggesting that promiscuous mice may have developed more robust immunity to protect them against the disease-causing bac ...
• Watch out for the poison leaves
• Alzheimer's treatment raises ethical quandary
  An "off-label" drug can help treat Alzheimer's, but what about side effects and availability for other patients?
• Multiple Abortions May Increase Risk Of Premat ...
  One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of some adverse birth outcomes, such as delivering a baby prematurely and with a low birth weight...

Common Dreams

• Prophet of the Rightwing, The Rev Sun Myung Mo ...
  A crucial test of a new religion is whether it transfers to the next generation after its founder's demise, and with the death of the Rev Sun Myung Moon at 92, the prospects for his Unification church – or "Moonies" – look poor. More significant is the future of the les ...
• Ahead of DNC, Protesters Put Spotlight on 'Cor ...
  Hundreds of people in Charlotte took to the streets on Sunday to voice their discontent with corporate dominion over US politics and called for a renewed challenge to the Democrats ahead of their National Convention this week to pay attention to the challenges and demands of those still struggli ...
• Continued 'Green on Blue' Violence Halts US Tr ...
  One of the key strategies touted by US and NATO military officials for securing appropriate conditions for a withdrawal of coalition soldiers from Afghanistan is the training of Afghan forces strong enough to provide their own defense and security against Taliban forces. ...
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should ...
  Calling out the international community to stand up and recognize the glaring hypocrisy of sending various African and Asian leaders of relatively weak nations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face trial for their crimes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has called for the for ...
• IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Ca ...
  WASHINGTON - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report made public Thursday reveals that Iran has actually reduced the amount of 20-percent enriched uranium available for any possible “breakout” to weapons grade enrichment over the last three months rather than increasing ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Chick Fil A Controversy http: ...
  ExamineReligion: Chick Fil A Controversy http://t.co/0zcfHBPD
• ExamineReligion: Baptism Is Only Necessary If. ...
  ExamineReligion: Baptism Is Only Necessary If... http://t.co/ok04n7nK
• ExamineReligion: The War Between the Testament ...
  ExamineReligion: The War Between the Testaments http://t.co/si54zc25
• ExamineReligion: US sold down the river by Ber ...
  ExamineReligion: US sold down the river by Bernanke and Greespan http://t.co/rS944Ljv
• ExamineReligion: Day of Pentecost a game-chang ...
  ExamineReligion: Day of Pentecost a game-changer for early church http://t.co/ClHSrMmg

Energy Collective

• The Obama Energy Plan: A Progress Report Critique
  This is an overview of the Obama Energy Plan released in March 2011 as a Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future.  A year later, the White House released a progress report highlighting their accomplishments. My commentary is designed to compare and contrast President Obama’s stated energy str ...
• Energy Independence and Electricity Storage
  At the end of 16 years, of course, you have a problem. Either you have discovered a lot more technically recoverable domestic petroleum or you are right back to where you started—but this time having used up all your reserves. While past experience may support the assumption that more recovera ...
• Why We Shouldn’t Call the Climate Debate a “Cu ...
  For months, I’ve been reading posts from environmental news sources saying that belief in the existence of climate change has become a “culture war.” Framing the issue this way is destructive because it draws a line in the sand, further polarizing an already divided community.
• Electrical Generation Capacity from Renewable ...
• New sensible efforts are raising the bar for s ...
  The ‘voices’ in the moderate center that have been drowned out in the increasingly inflammatory debate over the hydraulic fracturing of shale natural gas are getting a growing cadre of credible allies. And with them may come a sensible way to prudently capitalize on the enormous deposits of shal ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
  HASH(0xa1dc540)
• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
  HASH(0x4aa6940)
• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
  HASH(0x5fdc098)
• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
  HASH(0x4a616f8)
• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
  HASH(0x4a53730)

Peoples Voice

• Did America Say NO to Israel?
  by Gilad Atzmon In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to joint military exercise with Israel. Originally slated to include 5,000 US troops, Washington will now only send 1,500 to participate in Austere Challenge 12 with Israel. Apparently, the American ...
• The Totalitarian Imperative - At the Tipping Point
  By Numerian Posted by Michael Collins First appeared in The Agonist Borders have been shut down, and a preposterous security screening process, complete with requirements that people remove shoes, belts, and all personnel possessions, has been put in place that seems to have very little to ...
• Romney/Ryanism in Tampa
  by Stephen Lendman Tampa may never be the same. Republicans left it pockmarked. At least they're gone. Residents welcomed their departure. Three days of pre-scripted hokum were featured. Romney/Ryan speeches featured revisionist history. Democrats get their turn next week. Campaigning i ...
• This is not America
  By Timothy V. Gatto A beautiful song, being sung by a beautiful girl, the combination of both should make us feel anything but angry. Yet this song makes me angrier than hell. It’s because she sings the truth. This is NOT America. We live in a nation that is no longer what it once was. Fr ...
• Anti-Iranian Rage
  by Stephen Lendman Washington and Israel wage dirty covert wars. Iran's been targeted for years. Imperial aims are prioritized. Rule of law principles don't matter. Israel wants sole regional dominance. America wants it globally. Lawless tactics continue. They include cyber attacks, othe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
  A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
• Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
  The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
• Crime and Declining Unionization
  In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
• Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
  The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...

World Wide Hippies

• I Just Can’t Stomach Anymore Self Righte ...
  By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- As we count down the days until the election, it seems opposing sides get just a little meaner. It’s as if the Republicans and the Democrats have on boxing gloves and are waiting to give that final jab. Hey, I feel passionate about this election too. Well, sor ...
• Burning Man 2012 Festival Photos: Over 50,000 ...
  From enstarz.com - The “Burning Man” 2012 festival marked its second to last day Saturday in Black Rock City, Nevada, where more than 50,000 hipsters and hippies from around the world, endure triple digit temperatures, dust storms and freezing nights to experiment “Self-express ...
• WWH/CJE Sunday News Briefs
  TUTU: BUSH, BLAIR SHOULD FACE TRIAL AT THE HAGUE LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the retired Anglican Church ...
• After a lifetime of illegal logging, 12 famili ...
  From rainforestrealities.com – Rarely paying more than 500,000 Indonesian Rupiahs (US $55.68) a month, Gunawan’s old job wasn’t lucrative. It wasn’t easy. And it wasn’t legal. Times have changed. Gunawan’s monthly earnings have been more than tripled. The work is steady, less demanding — a ...
• This is not America – Oh yes it is…
  By Timothy V. Gatto,thepeoplesvoice.org – A beautiful song, being sung by a beautiful girl, the combination of both should make us feel anything but angry. Yet this song makes me angrier than hell. It’s because she sings the truth. This is NOT America. We live in a nation that is no longer ...

FourWinds10

• 2012 Oil Is Still Under The Water BP, Enbridg ...
  May 10, 2012           33   33 Share 0 Email Local residents have put out a video and a plea for help showing that BP, Enbridge, and the EPA are lying about the oil still submerged beneath the water. 2 years after the Michigan oil spill, that occurred during the inf ...
• Last Chance to Match
  May 24, 2012 Time is running out. As early as July, Shell could begin drilling in the Beaufort Sea, about 14 miles from the delicate and wildlife-abundant coastline of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But we’re not giving up. With your help, we can protect our most beloved wild places. ...
• Save Yellowstone National Park from dirty coal ...
  June 12, 2012 Tell the EPA: Protect Yellowstone from dirty coal pollution.   Yellowstone National Park is one of the most popular outdoor places in the United States and was the world's first national park, but it is increasingly threatened by air pollution from the nearby dirty Colstri ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...

Crisis Maven

• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
  Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Carbon Trading & Thorium Reactors
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...
• What Mitt Romney’s Energy Plan Should Look Like
  Following Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...
• Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011
  Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
• Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
  The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...
• How Ethanol and the Chevron Refinery Fire Impa ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two gasoline-related questions. One is on how ethanol is impacting current gasoline prices, and whether that increases the chances of a waiver for this year’s Renewable Fuel Standard. The other is on the impact of the Chevron re ...

Discovery Educator Network

• MY RESEARCH AND TOP 10 WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN XXI CE ...
  Comments:founders of #makr #startup make today from #diaspora next facebook a #socialmedia community project . I add Diaspora to Top 10 PLN tools http://bitly.com/collaborationincop2smile - LUCIAN DUMATags: no_tagby: LUCIAN DUMA
• ScootPad :: Practice. Learn. Succeed.
  Comments:"Practice. Learn. Succeed. ScootPad is the ultimate way to master math and reading skills. Self-paced and personalized practice keeps kids engaged & challenged. Common Core aligned, real-time progress tracking & concept proficiency insigts, paperless homework....Best of all: FREE!" - La ...
• LawForKids.org Home Page
  Tags: law, civics, interactive, governmentby: Lauri Brady
• Learn More - ThingLink
  Tags: interactive, web2.0, media, technology, image, tag, thinglinkby: Carolyn Rains
• Naiku Quick Question | Naiku
  Comments:Free site lets teachers conduct a variety of web-based assessments using any type of browser-equipped device. Very useful for formative assessment. - Randy RodgersTags: clickers, Teaching_Tools, polls, student_response, assessment, Online_Learning_Environments, formative_assessment, for ...

Rodale News

• The Top Natural Treatments for Lyme Disease
  Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors' offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percen ...
• The Most Toxic Pesticide You'll Soon Be Eating
  So-called "superweeds" are taking over American farmland. Impervious to chemical herbicides, like Roundup (the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.), these weeds don't die when exposed to chemicals. Instead, they just grow taller and thicker and become so sturdy, they've been known ...
• How Your Parents' Diet Could Help You Lose Weight
  The generation that spawned Woodstock and free love didn't completely abandon its ideals during the "Me Decade" of the '80s. Baby boomers are among the nation's largest percentage of vegetarians, according to a recent survey out from the Vegetarian Resource Group. The survey, given t ...
• It's OK To Visit Jamba Juice, Thanks to This 1 ...
  How do you get a huge fast-food chain to make a major shift in its environmental policies? Sick a precocious, Internet-savvy 10-year-old on it, and just wait for it to see the error of its ways. It worked in California! One day this past summer, Mia Hansen's mom took her to Jamba Juice, her fa ...
• The Medicine Cabinet Item That's Making You Fat
  For decades, nonorganic farmers have been using a feeding trick that speeds the growth of animals. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have figured out that the same medicine cabinet staples used to fatten up livestock—antibiotics—could be making people obese, too. Antibiotics and obe ...

big think

• Strange but True: Shape of Glass Affects How F ...
  What's the Latest Development? British researchers have determined that the shape of your beer glass affects how quickly you imbibe you draught, which may influence public health campaigns of the future (and how alcohol sellers market their product). In an experiment, 160 college undergr ...
• Stanford Study: At-Home Workers Are More Produ ...
  What's the Latest Development? Employees are more productive while working at home, and more productive individuals prefer their at-home offices to on-sight locations, concludes a study of a travel agency in Shanghai, China, conducted by researchers at Stanford University. The company, C ...
• Why the Affluent Don't Reach Out to Others in ...
  What's the Latest Development? In times of crises, different socio-economic classes respond differently, with wealthier individuals turning inward while poorer individuals reach out to members of their community for support. This is the conclusion of a series of new experiments conducted ...
• How the Elderly Learn to Worry Less
  What's the Latest Development? A recent psychological experiment reveals that the elderly have unique emotional coping strategies which help them lead happier, longer lives by distancing themselves from feelings of regret and focusing on the present moment instead. In the experiment, con ...
• Liberal Education as Problem Identification—Pa ...
  Since 1963 (more or less), the sophisticated wisdom has been on the side of easygoing sexual satisfaction.  Sex can and should be for pleasure detached from various repressive relational concerns.  The only limit to consensual gratification should be health and safety.  Safe sex is moral sex.  T ...

Information Liberation

• Cop Shoots And Kills Active Duty Soldier On Do ...
  Police are stonewalling. This is the second shooting the officer has been involved in, no details were given about the prior incident....
• Despite Privacy Concerns, Mexico Continues Sca ...
  For more than a year and a half, the Mexican government has been collecting an unprecedented amount of biometric data from minors ages 4 to 17 as part of a youth ID card program. The Personal Identity Card for minors, a document authorities say is in...
• The Pathology of U.S. Democracy
  Electoral politics is a moral and intellectual wasteland. There is no room for anyone of principle, whatever that principle might be. As a libertarian, I see little difference between Obama and Romney. They both favor a perpetual war on terror, a...
• World's richest woman: "Drink less, work more"
  SYDNEY * The world's richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those "jealous" of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking" in a piece the government described as "insulting" on Thursday. [...]Rinehart blamed what she described ...
• Paul Krugman's Mis-Characterization of the Gol ...
  With a price hovering around $1,600 an ounce and the prospect of "additional monetary accommodation" hinted to in the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee, gold is once again becoming a hot topic of discussion. Geo...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Rainbow Connection
  Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
• More Of The Shiny Stuff
  A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
• Meet The Asylum’s New Management
  The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Teenage Kids
  A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years ...
• Teenage Kids
  A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years ...
• Chemistry matters
  Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
• Chemistry matters
  Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
• Hairy Bikers BP BS
  Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...

RFF Library

• The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic H ...
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins http://bit.ly/QJcS5w [Abstract] Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That syst ...
• Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in th ...
  National Park System Science Board Advisory Committee http://www.nps.gov/calltoaction/PDF/LeopoldReport_2012.pdf [National Parks Traveler] Climate change, biodiversity, and the current state and understanding of ecosystem management all were unknown to A. Starker Leopold 50 years ago when he ove ...
• Assessment of New York City Natural Gas Market ...
  ICF International for New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2012/icf_natural_gas_study.pdf [WNYC] As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique ...
• Assumptions to Annual Energy Outlook 2012
  US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...
• Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A W ...
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...

Scientific American - News

• Doctors Debate the Safety of Starch Used in IV ...
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Turning on the Zap: New York City Readies Worl ...
  As World Water Week celebrates its 21st anniversary in Stockholm this week, New York City is two months away from opening the world's largest ultraviolet (UV) drinking-water disinfection plant . When the lights go on, the facility's 56 massive UV units will neutralize waterborne patho ...
• New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbre ...
  Tens of thousands of years ago modern humans crossed paths with the group of hominins known as the Neandertals. Researchers now think they also met another, less-known group called the Denisovans. The only trace that we have found, however, is a single finger bone and two teeth, but those fragme ...
• Isaac's Impacts: Destruction from 'Just a Cat ...
  When Hurricane Isaac swept ashore as a Category 1 storm, its destructive power seemingly took some by surprise. As images of submerged houses and news of dramatic rooftop rescues made the rounds, the Web was abuzz with expressions of disbelief that a mere "Cat 1" storm could be the cul ...
• Burn Notice: Mustard Species's Specialized Spi ...
  When you pass the Grey Poupon, you're probably not thinking about nature's defense systems. But mustard's kick is not just for season ing your sandwich, it's a plant's way of biting back. Recent research has found one reason why certain mustard plants carry these chemical co ...

First Truths

• The Anarchist Lineage
   Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
• "Crisis of the State"
  From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
• "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
  Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
• "Integrated Geographies"
  From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
• Colbert on Atheists
  I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

• First Nations paddle to protect Salish Sea fro ...
  Whey-Ah-Wichen (Cates Park, North Vancouver) - A dozen First Nations canoes paddled past the the Kinder Morgan crude oil pipeline facility in Burrard Inlet today. Tsleil Waututh and Squamish paddlers were joined by other First Nations from as far away as Washington State and Vancouver Island in ...
• Pirate Radio, Live from Cheam Rez
  June Quip talks about the importance of community radio to the band On Labour Day weekend a community radio station began operation from the Cheam rez, on 91.1 FM (possibly the best frequency choice ever). In this audio piece, Cheam band me ...
• Wabanaki People Invite Solidarity in the Face ...
  Long-standing alliance of Eastern indigenous peoples asks non-natives to join them Alma Brooks, a familiar face in the movement against shale gas, wants non-natives to join the Wabanaki Confederacy Conference at the riverfront at ...
• Domestication, aliénation et civilisation (par ...
  Comprendre la base violente et civilisatrice qui mène à notre domestication, de l’ontologie civilisatrice à l’ontologie sauvage Deuxième partie d’une entrevue avec Layla AbdelRahim, professeure de littérature anglaise à l’U.Q.T. ...
• Domestication, aliénation et civilisation (par ...
  Comprendre la base violente et civilisatrice qui mène à notre domestication, de l’ontologie civilisatrice à l’ontologie sauvage Première partie d’une entrevue avec Layla AbdelRahim, professeure de littérature anglaise à l’U.Q.T ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
  "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
• Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
  Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton
• Meditations on Republican craziness
  At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...
• The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for two
  In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free:  Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
• Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
  My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Todd Akin is Slowly Recovering From His "Legit ...
  Public Policy Polling has some new numbers for the Missouri Senate race: PPP's newest poll of the Missouri Senate race finds that Todd Akin is weathering the storm and the contest remains a toss up. Claire McCaskill leads 45-44, just a small change from our poll last week which found Akin a ...
• We Should Focus on Deception, Not Lying
  Did Paul Ryan lie repeatedly in his acceptance speech last Wednesday, as countless fact-checking articles later claimed? Stephen Hayes thinks it's an unfair charge. "Here’s the funny thing about most of these articles," he says in the Weekly Standard today. "They fail to cite a single fa ...
• Quote of the Day: Mitt Romney's Apology Tour
  "Hey," tweets Andrew Sprung, "Romney's kicked off an apology tour on behalf of the GOP." He chose Ohio to unveil his new schtick: Mitt Romney said Saturday that his party had fallen short on its fiscal promises even as he campaigned alongside a top Republican congressional leader....“ ...
• The Surprising Power of the New Hampshire Primary
  As you probably know, there are lots of models for predicting who will win the presidential race this year. To summarize: most of the models predict a small Obama victory, but a few predict a Romney victory. Most likely, it's gonna be close. Dylan Matthews rounds up a few of the forecasts here. ...
• Paul Ryan Likes to Supersize It
  Last week Paul Ryan told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he had once run a sub-three hour marathon. More specifically, "I had a two hour and fifty-something," he said. That's pretty impressive. And, as it happens, untrue: This evening, the terrific running journalist Scott Douglas fig ...

Insanity Report

• IC 344: Fuck France
  Topics: Kriss officially loses empathy Expendables 2 Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtle script WAS that bad Part 1 of Kev’s Europe Trip recap Share with your friends:
• IC 343: nWFo
  Topics: Special Guests: Jaxx the Rapper, Rod & Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips The formation of the nWFO Lots and Lots of rants on everything from Politics to Rape to Rod complaining about women who fucked up his Fantasy Football bar nights Share with your friends:
• IC 342: Land Sharks
  Topics: Ghostwriting You can’t force people to be activists Worse things than Kristen Stewart What Kevin Shouldn’t Do in Europe Shark Week Land Sharks The annoyance of politics Fix-a-Flat butt lifts Share with your friends:
• IC 341: Moral High Horse Olympics
  Topics: Olympic fails Worst Olympic swimmer in history Domestic Violence CAN be funny Beware White Boys Bearing Drugs Shark Week Real Fear Factor The fear of prison rape keeps me out of prison Peeing in the pool Man beats woman with her dead dog Share with your friends:
• IC 340: Double Trouble
  Topics: Olympic Taekwondo sucks Please don’t put MMA in the Olympics How Fox can (but won’t) use Days of Future Past to fix continuity Whedon back Warner Brothers and DC keep fucking up with the Justice League If you marry one conjoined twin…….. Pope says condoms are okay ...

Simple Climate

• More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
  Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
• Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
  With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
• Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
  Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
• CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
  Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
• Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
  2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University

e!Science News

• Anti-HIV drug simulation offers 'realistic' to ...
  Pooling data from thousands of tests of the antiviral activity of more than 20 commonly used anti-HIV drugs, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities have developed what they say is the first accurate computer simulation to explain drug effects. Already, the model clarifies how and ...
• Ancient enzymes function like nanopistons to u ...
  Molecular biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have solved one of the mysteries of how double-stranded RNA is remodeled inside cells in both their normal and disease states. The discovery may have implications for treating cancer and viruses in humans. read more
• Asthma symptoms could be aggravated by imbalan ...
  Vienna, Austria: Asthma patients could be at a higher risk of worsening symptoms due to problems with their balance, according to new research. read more
• Chilling methods could change meat tenderness
  In a recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Science, meat scientists report that a method called blast chilling could affect pork tenderness. Researchers at the USDA-ARS, Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) recently conducted a study that compares pork longissimus mu ...
• Earthquake hazards map study finds deadly flaw ...
  Three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history occurred where earthquake hazard maps didn't predict massive quakes. A University of Missouri scientist and his colleagues recently studied the reasons for the maps' failure to forecast these quakes. They also explored ways to impr ...

unEarthed

• Feds Betray Wyoming Wolves
  Shoot-on-sight killing of endangered wolves allowed in 30 days The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose a blue moon to announce the delisting of the gray wolf in ...
• Judge Holds TVA Liable For Kingston Disaster
  But disastrous Senate bill would let utilities off the hook Kingston, TN coal ash spill In a stunning victory for victims of the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authori ...
• Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes
  Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket oppose mountaintop removal mining Guitarist Warren Haynes has joined the Mountain Heroes campaign. John Denver’s &ldquo ...
• Unplugged: Stop Energy Hogs At The Border
  Earthjustice urges customs to act on noncompliant imports Courtesy: energyhog.org In June of 1976, the country had not yet marked its bicentennial. Gerald For ...
• Age Of Extreme Energy Needs Extreme Caution
  U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...

Brave New Climate

• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
• Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
  This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
• No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
  The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...

Indigenist Opinion

• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
• House Hopping
  House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
• Buying Property
  Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
• IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
  IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
• Real Estate Investing Myths
  Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Romney “I Wish President Obama Had Succe ...
  So Mitt in his convention speech claimed he wanted President Obama to succeed. Sure you did Mitt. And President Obama was going to have an easy time succeeding with the full support of Republican Senators right? Republican Senators making sure he is not successful in any way, and filibustering a ...
• Hard Times for Republican Convention Speakers ...
  I heard speaker after speaker at the convention talk about how hard their, or their parents lives were, and how hard they struggled. It must have been tough, and I am sure for many it was. Just don’t forget. Because of Republican policies, it is getting tougher, and tougher, and tougher to ...
• “We’re not going let our campaign be dic ...
  Quote – Neil Newhouse, Mitt Romney’s campaign pollster. Whoda Thinkit! New York Times Article Lyin’ Ryan and Mitt The Plunderer. The best the GOP has to offer. (Puke)
• What Have Republicans Done To Help President O ...
  I roll around with a large sign in my car’s back window that says “Republicans Are A Disease”. Since I live in a blue state, I get a lot of thumbs up, and occasionally a finger. Once in a while a Republican will “engage” me in a conversation voicing their displeasur ...
• Lyin’ Ryan
  I turned on my radio a few times today and it seems like ever single caller referred to Paul Ryan as “Lyin’ Ryan”. Since he is a liar, well, it seemed appropriate. I am not any fancy MSM reporter, I just call em as I see em. And of course All Facts Support My Positions…..

Appalachia Rising

• Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
  Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
• Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
  PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
• Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
  All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
• Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
  On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
• Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
  West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• Women of the Wall and Pussy Riot: Unlikely par ...
  From Pussy Riot to Women of the Wall, our male religious authorities are so intimidated by women mobilizing support for religious freedom and expression, that they feel the need to restrain, detain and jail this great potential for change. By Shira Pruce I admit that a few weeks ago, if you aske ...
• Hagai Amir: I don’t regret Rabin’s murde ...
  Hagai Amir, accomplice in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was released in May after serving 16 years in jail. He discusses with +972 Magazine his pride in the assassin, his brother Yigal; his contacts with Hamas representatives in prison; his views on a binational state; and m ...
• The face of violence: between racism and banal ...
  In 1998, an Israeli film appeared called “Buzz.” It was based on a true story that had rocked the country four years earlier: two teenagers murdered a taxi driver, shooting him six times in the back. In the style of some great literature, there was no motive at all, just sheer thrill ...
• Mass entry of Palestinians into Israel calls f ...
  Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank who are normally barred from entering Israel got a glimpse of freedom during Ramadan as single entry permits were issued more liberally.  Many also infiltrated without being caught. What does that tell us about Israel’s security rati ...
• Letter from a Pakistani blogger
  Over the last few months, I have engaged in a series of conversations with Pakistani writers and academics through mutual friends. These talks have been a rare and fascinating opportunity to see their country through their eyes rather than through Western media sources. We’ve discovered so ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Tasmania's largest irrigation scheme ready to ...
  The construction of Tasmania's biggest ever irrigation scheme is ready to start in the Midlands.
• Joyce says no to spending on infrastructure up ...
  Today in The Australian, the Shadow Minister for Water, Barnaby Joyce, reached new heights in the Opposition's obsession with saying no to everything.
• New weather bureau radar for south-east Tasmania
  Tasmania's new state-of-the-art Doppler weather radar will provide coverage to large sections of the state for the first time.
• Nominations open for the 2012 Prime Minister's ...
  Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2012 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
• Stormwater greening Geelong Botanic Gardens an ...
  Geelong Botanic Gardens and Eastern Park will be greener thanks to the construction of new stormwater irrigation infrastructure.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most ir ...
  From Matt Taibbi, one of the only reporters left in this country: And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a “turnaround specialist,” a shrewd financial operat ...
• Matt Stoller: A Roll Call of All The Activist ...
  We have such a disgustingly short attention span in this country….just a few short weeks ago, the bobble heads and the press were lauding the “Landmark Attorney General Foreclosure Settlement” The banks were being punished…..right? WRONG…….AND IT JUST GETS WOR ...
• Did The Republicans Just Lose The Election? Do ...
  Forget about old school Chicago ward style politics…the corruption on display by the GOP in Tampa was off the charts.  The ReTHUGliCON party was completely hijaked by the fascist neo cons, but in doing so they cut out even the hard right factions of the party.  Rush Limbaugh was up in arms ...
• Brand New Service of Process Case out of the Fifth
  This firm regularly looks at the released cases out of every circuit case in the state of Florida that concerns mortgage foreclosures. Today, the 5th DCA came out and reiterated what has been said many times before: that service of process must be strictly complied with. In Schofield v. Wells Fa ...
• Spencer v. EMC- Because of the stumbling, bumb ...
  Because of the stumbling, bumbling, and general ineptitude of the mortgagee and its representatives, the appellant has managed to remain in the mortgaged premises without payment for over fifteen years after defaulting in 1997. While it therefore pains me deeply to do so, I concur in the reversa ...

abelard - news

• bernanke suggests economic triggers on money p ...
  Emulating Bank of England strategy and providing a safety net.
• iran deliberately lies about ban ki-moon warni ...
  As with any socialist state, Iran cannot face the truth, preferring to censor it instead.
• first week - short report | vuelta a espagna 2 ...
  After a mere bumpy week, with tactical cycling by the front runners, work will start.
• down with fascism, up with fascism | politics ...
  On analysis, George Orwell appears to have very mussled thinking.
• "you are a fascist" | politics news at abelard.org
  Misusing words and using them as accusation is part of the leftist method - a dissection.

The Parallel Parliament

• How Politics Changes Us (2)
  Seth Godin writes a blog. It’s always short and terse but carries nuggets within it. Here’s what he put out …Continue reading »
• How Politics Changes Us (1)
  Last week there was a conversation stream going on among some on Twitter asking why it is that politics always …Continue reading »
• My Own Stargate
  O the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
• On Blood and Belonging
  It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »
• An Open Letter To London’s New City Manager
  My London Free Press article of today – An open letter to City Manager Art Zuidema on his first week …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
• Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
  Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
• The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
  Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
• Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
  Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...

2020 Science

• Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
  Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
• Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
  Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
• Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
  Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
• Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
  I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

• The Good of WikiLeaks
  Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
• Race War in Arizona
  Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
• Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
• Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
  Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
• Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
  Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

• A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
  By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
• The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
  “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
• The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
  [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
• Saying No To Tear Gas
  [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
• Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
  On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

• The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
  The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
• Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
  Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
• New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
  I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
• How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
  With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
• How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
  Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?

k2p blog

• Long term investment: Avoid the carbon taxers ...
  So my message for the next 5 or 6 years is to shift your investments away from Australia (and other virtuous but economically silly countries) and into countries promoting low energy prices (US and other countries where the environmental regulations and tax regimes allow production of electrici ...
• Anders Behring Breivik’s cell to be
  He killed 77 people and this is what his cell will look like. Sentenced to "luxury for life"?
• Reality Check: add renewables subtract nuclear ...
  Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year.
• Fisker Karma electric hybrid car is a gold-min ...
  The subsidy effectively provides a real incentive for Fisker not to make the car work or to sell more cars but to cease production as soon as practically possible without incurring any risk for repayment of the subsidy.
• Wind power beginning to lose its gloss in Germany
  The cost of wind power is beginning to bite in Germany.

Left Foot Forward

• Nomination for most influential left-wing thin ...
  Robert Philpot nominates Philip Gould as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.
• The UK must support a democratic future in Swa ...
  Swaziland is Africa’s only absolute monarchy and is currently in the midst of significant economic, political and social struggles.
• Nomination for most influential left-wing thin ...
  Neal Lawson, chair of Compass, nominates Colin Crouch as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.
• Nomination for most influential left-wing thin ...
  Carl Packman MP nominates Stella Creasy as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.
• Thank you
  We've smashed through our fundraising target and raised £3,500 in just three weeks. As our readers have proved, on the left we support our causes.

Consumerist

• Starbucks Wants To Turn Leftover Coffee & Muff ...
  Nobody wants stale old muffins and the coffee ground leavings at day's end, but instead of just dumping that stuff in a landfill, Starbucks says it's trying out a new recycling process that would turn said items into bio-plastics and laundry detergent. Wiping up those carbon footprints is always ...
• Comment Of The Day: Dishwasher, Clean Thyself
  We're reviving an old-school Consumerist feature last seen circa 2008: the Comment of the Day. On this morning's post about cleaning 'taters and cooking salmon in the dishwasher, commenter Pasketti observed that only a dishwasher that is itself clean can clean your potatoes properly. Here's a di ...
• Facebook Stock Down More Than 50%, Schadenfreu ...
  Facebook stock has reached a new low following news that analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Bank of Montreal have lowered their price target for the stock. "Revenue pressure from growing mobile usage, a larger-than-expected social gaming revenue slowdown, higher spending and lock-up e ...
• Wells Fargo Working With Daughter To Make Her ...
  We've been closely following the case of a woman who was trying to save the home she inherited from her late mother, only to be confounded when Wells Fargo refused to deal with anyone but the dead woman. Earlier this week, Wells Fargo announced that they'd placed the foreclosure on hold and had ...
• Hold On To Your Cans, Diet Pepsi Devotees: You ...
  You know what they say — if you don't change, you die. Despite the positives of forward momentum, we're willing to bet diehard Diet Pepsi drinkers might be a bit upset to know that the soda is changing up its sweetener. PepsiCo swears the taste will remain the same as the one aspartame brings to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Manning Defense Demands Access to Emails: Dail ...
  Daily Telegraph (UK): ‘US Withheld Hundreds of Emails in the Bradley Manning Case’ Summary: The latest pretrial hearing for Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, continues its third day today. Manning’s defense has accused the prosecution of w ...
• Young Niece of Indian Whistleblower Attacked: ...
  IBN Live (India): Whistleblower’s Niece Attacked in Bikaner Summary: The four-year-old niece of an Indian whistleblower was attacked and thrown against a wall in order to “get even” with her uncle. She has suffered permanent damage to her nervous system. Her whistleblower uncle has been trying ...
• Is New Orleans Ready for Isaac?: Daily Whistle ...
  Seven Years after Katrina, New Orleans Still Has Defective Pumps Revealed by Whistleblower Summary: A US Army Corps of Engineers whistleblower revealed, years ago, major safety and reliability issues with the hydraulic pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. GAP National Securi ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still H ...
  Tropical Storm Isaac, on the verge of becoming a hurricane, is headed toward Louisiana. Officials have pronounced New Orleans ready, while at the same time the governor urged people in low-lying areas and places outside of levee protection to leave for safe ground. The Army Corps of Engine ...
• Whistleblowers: Contemporary Davids vs. Goliaths
  GAP President Louis Clark recently authored the following entry on the blog of The Kindle Project, a Santa Fe-based grant-making entity which is a fiscally sponsored project of the Common Counsel Foundation. The Kindle Project's mission is to cultivate possibilities and support people and projec ...

UK Progressive

• Labor Day 2012 and the Election of 2012: It’s ...
  by Robert Reich The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top – among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people – and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequali ...
• Christian Right vs. Deism
  by Robert Hunizger The reign of capitalism is now a worldwide phenomenon, achieving a pinnacle of influence that dominates politics and societal behaviour. Never before throughout the history of humankind has one principle of socio/economic theory had such profound impact on the world, rivaling ...
• How Romney Keeps Lying Through His Big White Teeth
  by Robert Reich “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster. A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefit ...
• Suddenly Homeless – Leadership Needed To Solve ...
  By Charley James The more I experience the struggle of simply staying alive every day, the angrier I get. America’s priorities, far too many of its politicians, and even a disturbing number of our everyday folks, are brutal – and brutish – about how to deal with homeless people like me who ...
• Trickle Down Economics Pyramid Scheme
  by Tina Dupuy A few years ago, I had a friend who didn’t want anyone to know she was going to therapy. Instead she would announce at her place of business she was leaving to attend her Amway meeting. At one point I had to inform her, “You know that doesn’t make you look any [...]

NewsAlert

• A Tax Level Cheat Sheet
  Greg Mankiw
• Is President Barack Obama being blackmailed ?
  Illinois Pay to Play
• Romney 48% Obama 44%
  Rasmussen reports:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 44% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. Just prior to ...
• Morgan Stanley Rainmakers Consider Exit
  CNBC
• Dinesh D’Souza, Bill Maher debate Obama’s ‘sub ...
  The Daily Caller

JoNova

• Wind farms — are 96% useless, and cost 1 ...
  Thanks to Steve Hunter Victoria’s windfarms have saved virtually no coal from being burnt. South Australian windfarms have saved 4% of their rated capacity in fossil fuels at a cost of $1,484 per ton. That’s only $1,474 above the current price of carbon credits per ton in the EU. The ...
• So much for certainty? Just two months later, ...
  The Australian Government,via Greg Combet, announced this week that Labor’s version of certainty is the kind that is un-certain. For two years they’ve been emphatically declaring that “Australia needs certainty” or it’s variant, “Business needs certainty&#8221 ...
• Lewandowsky – Shows “skeptics&#82 ...
  I‘m putting on a conservative, understated hat. This could be the worst paper I have seen — an ad hom argument taken to its absurd extreme, rebadged as “science”. Professorial fellow Stephan Lewandowsky thinks that skeptics who are “greatly involved” in the cl ...
• Another pointless poll – 2% of Canadians ...
  It’s another useless question written in a another pointless poll. Define “climate change”: does it mean the climate doesn’t stay the same year after year, or is it code for “man-made global warming”? The term is so overused, so cliched, it is a meaningless p ...
• Peter Doherty responds in The Australian but s ...
  There’s a letter in the paper today in response to my article: Climate scientists are not failing to convince others From: The Australian August 27, 2012 12:00AM Every significant science academy supports the case made by the climate science community. These academies encompass the full sp ...

ReNew America

• Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
• From preserving liberty to destroying it
  (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
• Building the free-market case against big business
  (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
• New hope for life worldwide
  (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
• Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
  (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

• The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
  Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
• S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
  In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
• Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
  John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
• TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
  Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

• Bear Grylls Survival Kit
  I used to really enjoy watching Bear Grylls on the TV – but after a while it got a bit repetitive (no problem with that, means that basic skills work in numerous scenarios). What really ruined it for me is how it was all a little bit fake. Unless they specifically stated that he spent all ...
• Power Grid Failure and Nuclear Meltdowns
  I have frequently discussed the worrisome prospect of long-term power grid failures. NASA has acknowledged the risk, and it all it will take is a massive solar storm – like the Carrington Event of 1859. If the grid is down for months on end, it is expected that millions of people would die ...
• Medical Books You Might Need One Day
  I found this list in a book titled The Doom and Bloom™ Survival Medicine Handbook, and it seems to be comprehensive enough to give you piece of mind. Combine it with a doctor and a nurse and you’ll be just fine. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Gray’s Anatomy for Students The Phys ...
• Bizarre: Skeptics Cashing in on 2012
  I’m a skeptic at heart, but when things pass by BS detector I can be a believer of sorts. So while I dismiss Planet X, I believe there could be a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar. If I were to devote my time to writing about skeptical topics, I’d try to avoid saying things ...
• A Third Type of Survivalist
  Normally there are just two types of survivalists – those who get off their butt and prepare, and those that might talk about it, but never really get anything done. If only someone could make it easier for them… The U.S. city of Cannon Beach, Oregon will suffer a tsunami one day, an ...

Facing South

• UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
  When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
• Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
  Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
  In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
• Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
  Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
• Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
  The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

One News Page

• Odisha halts operations at six Coal India mines
  Odisha government halted operations at six coal mines of Coal India after its Environment clearance expired.The Odisha Director of Mines, Deepak Kumar Mohanti told reporters that they do not have the forest department clearance. Reported by All India Radio 5 minutes ago
• Nitish slams Centre, Maha govt over Raj Thacke ...
  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday charged the Centre and Maharashtra government with failing to rein in Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for his threat to throw Biharis out of Maharashtra. Reported by Rediff.com 7 minutes ago
• Ethiopians, heads of state pay respects at Mel ...
  ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians and at least 15 heads of state turned out on Sunday to pay their respects at the funeral of Meles Zenawi, the guerrilla leader turned economic reformer who died last month after more than two decades in power. Reported by Firstpost 49 minu ...
• Veteran politician, sports personality Birkesa ...
  A former member of Rajya Sabha and two time MLA, Deo (85) was the second son of former 'Maharaja' of Kalahandi princely state Brajamohan Deo. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• BJP spreading anarchy: Sriprakash Jaiswal
  Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said no one can force Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resign till he enjoys the support of people. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• How Many Golf Courses Does the Pentagon Need?
• Timely Massacre? Pushing Russia and China to C ...
• Israel Drops Iran-Attack Hints to US
• Non-Aligned Movement Summit Kicks Off in Iran
• Afghan War Forgotten by Americans

Daily Tech

• Purdue Researchers Beef up Phone Nanofilters t ...
  New device consists of a tiny, tunable silicon beam, could replace complex circuits, save power
• Apple, Google Talk Mobile Patents; Could be Se ...
  Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page engaged in a private phone conversation last week
• Amazon Taps Nokia for Maps
  The Kindle Fire line will have native maps apps thanks to Nokia
• South Korea Aims to Turn Human Waste to Fuel
  We won't ask where the inspiration for this idea came to the research team
• Sony Wants to Free Users From the "Tyranny of ...
  Refreshed, cheaper streaming service will offer 16 million songs, accessible on Android, the PC, and the PS3

Oriental Review

• Pacific Ocean Navies in 2020
  Wars don’t happen by accident. Any armed conflict is prepared for and planned well in advance. That’s a fact. People living in an absolutely peaceful country sometimes aren’t even aware that their country has decided to go to war and preparations for it are already in full swing. To better under ...
• NATO’s Pan-Arab Terrorist Blitzkrieg
  Western policy makers admit that NATO’s operations in Libya have played the primary role in emboldening Al Qaeda’s AQIM faction (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). The Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution’s Bruce Riedel in his article, “The New Al Qaeda Menace,” ...
• The Independent Kosovo: Gangland Spills Savage ...
  Part I A feature common to the serial outbreaks of unrest in the course of the Arab Spring and the conflicts in the post-Yugoslavian space was the involvement of the armed opposition which had grown out of local criminal or downright terrorist groups in the resulting transitions. The Arab countr ...
• Ecuador Shields Assange from the Revengeful Empire
  Last June, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took shelter in the embassy of Ecuador in London after being granted political asylum by the government of R. Correa. Assange explains that the plan shared by the Swedish, US, and British security agencies is to have him extradited to the US once Swede ...
• Remembering the Man on the Moon: The Passing o ...
  It should surprise no one, and yet, the passing of the first man on the moon enabled space – and the American way of life – to be yanked into the public fold with a degree of hubris that should turn any human off extra-terrestrial missions. Tributes are flooding various forums, extolling Armstro ...

BlogHer

• Evernote and Moleskin Team Up to Improve Note ...
  I know several BlogHers who are excited about the improvements in notetaking that the collaboration between Moleskin and Evernote offer busy folks. Kristen at Cool Mom Tech has all the details. She explains, Considering I never leave home without my Moleskine and am completely addicted to Evern ...
• Get a Bit Teary With "The Sweetness of Forgetting"
  I fell for the beautiful cover of Kristen Harmel's The Sweetness of Forgetting but it was the book's description and
• Soft Pretzel & Tomato Appetizers
  [Editor's Note: These soft pretzel tomato bites are right up my alley: bursting with fresh, seasonal tomato flavor, but built on a base of delicious baked dough. They're a fantastic appetizer for this holiday weekend, or even an afternoon snack this week for kids coming home from their first few ...
• Reigniting Your Work-At-Home Mojo
  Here are some fresh tips for getting your work at home mojo rolling once the kids are back at school. From balance to carving out time for yourself, there are some worthwhile tips in here to augment the tips for self-employed moms. Taken together, you'll be unstoppable. Now I need to get my ...
• Reigniting Your Work-At-Home Mojo
  Here are some fresh tips for getting your work at home mojo rolling once the kids are back at school. From balance to carving out time for yourself, there are some worthwhile tips in here to augment the tips for self-employed moms. Taken together, you'll be unstoppable. Now I need to get m ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Audit of the Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trill ...
  The first ever GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year.
• The Power of Being an Introvert in a World Tha ...
  “Mom, you’re reading that, too!?” My 23-year-old-son, home for a visit, was astonished to see that each of us had picked up the same book: Susan Cain’sQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That ...
• An Open Letter to Consumer Reports: 10 Misinfo ...
  By James J. Gormley It is personally disappointing for me that Consumer Reports, the flagship of the respected marketplace-empowerment organization, Consumers Union, has once again seen fit to arm the American consumer with detrimental misinformation regarding safe, ...
• The Importance of Fever
  Childhood fevers can be frightening, mostly because they are misunderstood. A fever is an increase in body temperature above the “normal range.” But the definition of “normal” can vary from person to person. Body temperature also ...
• Is Your Tatoo Making You Sick?
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...

Live News Wire

• Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
  Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
• Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
  The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
• Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
  Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
• “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
  At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
• Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
  The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Aug. 31, 2012
  In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work at Xiaojiawan Coal Mine in Panzhihua City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Zhong) Again this week, the news from the coalfields of China isn’t good: The deat ...
• Patriot: Some common ground in coal debate?
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis We have an update in this morning’s Gazette about the United Mine Workers of America’s new “Fighting for Fairness at Patriot” campaign, reporting this: Kelly Elswick mined coal for more than 30 years, finishing his career running a grader at th ...
• Is climate change just a joke to the GOP?
  Folks are going to be talking a lot about last night’s appearance by Clint Eastwood at the closing of the Republican National Convention, but as I watched events unfold, the really remarkable moment was when GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney started off this sentence: President Obama pr ...
• Obama MSHA: Standing up for coal miners
  We obviously hear a lot these days about how terrible the Obama administration is for coal miners and the coal industry. And goodness knows this blog hasn’t always been that friendly to some of the things that the current U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has done (see here, here ...
• Where is the outrage for Patriot retirees?
  This morning’s Gazette included an editorial about the growing concerns regarding pensions and retiree health-care for miners and their families, given the bankruptcy reorganization efforts of Patriot Coal. To quote the editorial: The word “scam” once described the tactic of bl ...

Daniel Miessler

• Shed the Titles of Atheist and Skeptic | Plove ...
  As we have seen, skepticism is a broad and varied church — welcoming, among others, elitist, sexist and racist views. One thing all skeptics have in common, though, is that they support the freedoms they believe to exist in present-day western civilization, and think those freedoms should be spr ...
• Romney’s Game Plan for RNC Speech
  http://www.theonion.com/articles/romneys-acceptance-speech-to-avoid-mentionin… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPhenomenal Speech by a War VeteranStarving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception | The OnionLook, Are We Going To ...
• HP ShadowLabs is Looking for an Infrastructure ...
  HP Shadowlabs is looking for someone with extremely strong skills in the following areas: Linux Oracle InfoSec Uber sysadmin skills Wicked Problem Solving General kickassedness We’re looking for someone with a good amount of experience in these areas. People interested must be willing to d ...
• Persistent Cannabis Users Show Neuropsychologi ...
  Persistent cannabis use was associated with neuropsychological decline broadly across domains of functioning, even after controlling for years of education. Informants also reported noticing more cognitive problems for persistent cannabis users. Impairment was concentrated among adolescent-onset ...
• Gene Sequencing and Ethical Puzzles | NYTimes.com
  In laboratories around the world, genetic researchers using tools that are ever more sophisticated to peer into the DNA of cells are increasingly finding things they were not looking for, including information that could make a big difference to an anonymous donor. The question of how, when and ...

Fitwatch

• Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
  Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
• Welcome to the Future, Today.
  For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
• The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
  A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Hip Poetry: You Were There (Robert Priest)
  WorldWide Hippies–:Hip Poetry 2012! The book is a compilation of some of the worlds best poets and writers.   Excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry. Hip Poetry 2012 dances and moves. It brings the challenges in life to the surface. The writers and poets meet today’s horrors, pain, and suffering in t ...
• I Just Can’t Stomach Anymore Self Righte ...
  By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- As we count down the days until the election, it seems opposing sides get just a little meaner. It’s as if the Republicans and the Democrats have on boxing gloves and are waiting to give that final jab. Hey, I feel passionate about this election too. Well, sor ...
• Burning Man 2012 Festival Photos: Over 50,000 ...
  From enstarz.com - The “Burning Man” 2012 festival marked its second to last day Saturday in Black Rock City, Nevada, where more than 50,000 hipsters and hippies from around the world, endure triple digit temperatures, dust storms and freezing nights to experiment “Self-express ...
• WWH/CJE Sunday News Briefs
  TUTU: BUSH, BLAIR SHOULD FACE TRIAL AT THE HAGUE LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the retired Anglican Church ...
• After a lifetime of illegal logging, 12 famili ...
  From rainforestrealities.com – Rarely paying more than 500,000 Indonesian Rupiahs (US $55.68) a month, Gunawan’s old job wasn’t lucrative. It wasn’t easy. And it wasn’t legal. Times have changed. Gunawan’s monthly earnings have been more than tripled. The work is steady, less demanding — a ...

reference frame

• Sunlight or neutrinos affect the radon gamma d ...
  Seasonal and daytime variations in the gamma decay rate Several readers have directed my attention to a recent, May 2012 Stanford-Purdue-Israel preprint on the seasonal variations of the gamma decay: Analysis of Gamma Radiation from a Radon Source: Indications of a Solar Influence Th ...
• Stratospheric geoengineering: undoing global w ...
  Bits of Science, Revmodo, and Fars News talk about a new Aurora-Harvard-Carnegie paper in Environmental Research Letters Cost analysis of stratospheric albedo modification delivery systems (fulltext PDF) by Justin McClellan, David W Keith, and Jay AptThey quantify the aircraft- or roc ...
• EU: all incandescent light bulbs banned tomorrow
  In the article aptly titled "Light-Bulb Ban Casts Shadow over EU Democracy", The Spiegel reminds us, the Europeans, about an important change that will affect our continent starting from tomorrow, Saturday, September 1st, 2012. No, Germany isn't invading Poland in the same way as it did on Se ...
• Harvard course: 125 students copy a take-home exam
  B Chimp Yen has informed me about a mass cheating scandal at Harvard; see e.g. these sources. BBC and other outlets wouldn't tell you the name of the course. However, good enough Internet users need approximately 1 minute to find out which course it was. Yes, it was "Introduction t ...
• London built a new paralympic LHC collider
  The opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London was apparently a cool event. At the beginning of this 4-minute preview, you may listen to a 70-year-old athlete, Dr Stephen Hawking, who also talks about another hobby of his, the search for a theory of everything: H ...

Tatumba 2.0

• EMP Chronicles – 2012
  Whether or not you think WW3 is about to start or has already started (Albeit in a more unconventional manner — Cyberwar, Currency War, Proxy War, Information War, etc…) — there… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Jello Biafra of The Dead Ke ...
• Syria civil war killed 5,000 in August, activi ...
  Two Syrian activist groups say about 5,000 people were killed in Syria in August, making it the deadliest month since the uprising began more than 17 months ago. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Syria civil war killed 5,000 in August, activists say Two Syrian activist groups say abou ...
• Syria civil war killed 5,000 in August, activi ...
  Two Syrian activist groups say about 5,000 people were killed in Syria in August, making it the deadliest month since the uprising began more than 17 months ago. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Syria civil war killed 5,000 in August, activists say Two Syrian activist groups say abou ...
• More Evidence that Canadian lawyer Martin Maso ...
  Murder Mystery in Canada’s Courts Continues The recent sudden death and suspected murder of Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson of Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on June 27, 2012, has caused investigators to re-think the sudden death of prominent Ottawa lawyer Martin Mason on June 18, ...
• All Zuckered Up: The Facebook IPO Saga
  www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv twitter.com www.facebook.com [Checkout Alex’s New Social Network-’Planet Infowars’ planet.infowars.com This is a textbook drill where you shoot the patsy! This is off the chart in your face. UPDATE: A family member whose parents were victims ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
  The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

• Water- The New Inconvenient Truth
  By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
• EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
  0 0 1 301 1722 Environmental Working Group 14 4 2019 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Johnson & Johnson Takes a Big Step in the Righ ...
  0 0 1 316 1805 Environmental Working Group 15 4 2117 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
• Always Faithful: President Signs Bill Expandin ...
  "Times New Roman"">By Heather White, Chief of Staff We walked up to the White House Appointments Desk at 17th Street and State Place NW, headed for the West Wing. The security officer examined Jerry Ensminger's military... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• Schneiderman takes a (self-protective) swipe a ...
• Axelrod agrees with Republicans on Medicare de ...
• Police stops are a 'fact of urban life,' Kelly ...
• How Blake Edwards made the Pink Panther movies ...
• Mike Morey leaves Schumer's press shop for Isa ...

Views & News from Norway

• Celebrating in high, roaring style
  PHOTO SERIES: Norway’s Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary over the weekend with exhibits on the ground and an air show overhead that drew tens of thousands of people to the capital. From Norway’s oldest plane in the air to a model of Norway’s new F35 fighter jet, crowds ...
• Nordic foreign and defense ministers gather in ...
  For the first time ever, both the foreign ministers and defense ministers of the five Nordic countries were gathering this weekend for a joint meeting, and it was taking place September 2-3 in the northern Norwegian city of Bodø. Norway’s own foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, said the me ...
• Consumers punish dairy ‘regulator’
  Norwegian consumers clearly haven’t forgotten last winter’s nationwide butter shortage, blamed on dairy cooperative Tine’s failure to head it off. Now Tine, also known as the “market regulator” for dairy products in Norway, has lost consumer confidence, reported poo ...
• Farmers lobby for more protection
  Norway’s notoriously high food prices look set to rise even higher if the country’s powerful farmers get their way. They’re putting more heavy pressure on the government to further boost import tariffs, to keep cheaper competing agricultural products out of the Norwegian market ...
• Air show to fly over Oslo
  Noise levels were expected to be high on Saturday, with the Norwegian Air Force celebrating its 100th anniversary with not only a major exhibition on the City Hall Plaza (Rådhusplassen) but also an air show overhead. As many as 25 military aircraft and helicopters were due to fly over Oslo and t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Wrapping Up the Year at Zaytuna Farm – Last Fo ...
  Zaytuna Farm and its produce All photographs © Craig Mackintosh Zaytuna Farm has four courses remaining for 2012. Permaculture Project Establishment Course – Permaculture Aid in Action with Geoff and Nadia Lawton When: 10 — 14 September, 2012 Where: Zaytuna Farm, The Cha ...
• A Request to Webmasters – Change Links to Perm ...
  You haven’t been seeing so many posts of late, as I’ve been a little distracted, getting under the hood of this website to fix a few things. Given the very international scope of our work, one of items I’ve checked off the things-to-do list is to switch our domain from permacu ...
• Second Annual Nordic Permaculture Festival
  Last year saw the creation of the Nordic Permaculture Festival in Denmark. The idea is to have the festival alternate between each of the Nordic Countries. This year’s Festival occurred from August 23 – 26, 2012, at Angsbacka, a course farm, located in central Sweden. Over 300 parti ...
• Making the Case for the Genetically Modified Human
  If we fail to change trajectory, then perhaps we should be re-engineering the root cause of our problem — ourselves? It’s true that I’m well known for attacking the GMO industry, its industry financed scientists and their thus-incentivised reductionist ’science’. I& ...
• Vertical Gardens
  by Frank Gapinski Making use of vertical wall space located in a sunny spot is a great way to grow your garden. In fact you don’t need pumps or complicated equipment to start growing your own vegetable garden. As long as you have a consistent amount of sunshine of around 6 hours per day an ...

Pointman's

• Time to cull the prat nominations.
  I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
• The repair man.
  He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
• Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
  Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
• Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
• Legislation by regulation.
  What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
• Video Resources updated
  The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
• Flash Journalism updates
  I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
  This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
• Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
  1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
• Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
  New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
• Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
  While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Here is the interview by Deanna Spingola of Jarrah White, which is probably the best of all of these interviews/discussions. I HIGHLY recommend it. http://www.theinfounderground.com/archi ... 121311.mp3 LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:53 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://www.theinfounderground.com/archi ... 081511.mp3Statistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:49 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Yes I listened to those audio's with roger on, he did not do a very good job and did not take the show seriously. I have listened to most of those shows, if you can find the Deanna ones, I will listen to them. WIKI says that Bart Sibrel is the producer of A funny thing happened on the way to the ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28dQaaLQGQ&feature=related[/youtube] Watch the recommended-videos on the right-hand side of this for MORE videos of the jets and their pilots KNOWINGLY dispersing these poisons because it is intermittent and not continually spraying. I PERSONALLY wi ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis These two are MUST-SEE documentaries, and how ANYONE could say that this is not happening, when you can look-up in the sky and watch this poison SPREAD-OUT OVER MANY MILES, shows that the hu ...

TVNZ

• Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon dies
  Sun Myung Moon, 92, founder and head of the Unification Church, died at a retreat near Seoul today.
• Obama, Romney tied as Democrats go into convention
  President Obama enters an important campaign week tied with Romney, a poll found today.  
• Mormons laud Romney for raising church's profile
  Mormon churchgoers have praised Romney for raising the church's profile.
• Vladimir Putin calls for unity in Russia
  Putin has delivered a rousing speech which extolled the virtues of patriotism.    
• Rebels hit army HQ in Damascus
  Rebels have admitted planting bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters.

environment 360

• EU Ban on Incandescent Bulbs Goes into Effect ...
  The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...
• Better Use of Fertilizer and Water Can Feed Gr ...
  A new study suggests that the the world can meet the surging demand for food in the coming decades without rampant deforestation if farmers make better use of fertilizer and water resources. In an analysis of management practices and yield data for 17 major crops worldwide, researchers from McG ...
• Brazilian Deforestation Falls Sharply in Past ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 77 percent from 2004 to 2011, but carbon emissions did not drop as steeply because of complex processes revealed during on-the-ground studies, scientists say. While analysis of satellite images showed the three-quarters drop in deforestation, researc ...
• Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
  Scientists say this year’s record declines in Arctic sea ice extent and volume are powerful evidence that the giant cap of ice at the top of the planet is on a trajectory to largely disappear in summer within a decade or two, with profound global consequences. BY FEN MONTAIGNE
• India Approves $4 Billion Plan to Add 6 Millio ...
  The government of India has approved a 230-billion rupee strategy ($4.13 billion) to spur increased production of electric and hybrid vehicles over the next eight years, setting a target of 6 million green vehicles by 2020. The new plan, designed to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Toronto Post
  Tags: toronto post blogs articles
• Ernst v. EnCana Corporation | Landowner Jessic ...
  Tags: water contamination fracking
• FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry
  Tags: chemical disclosure registry fracking water drilling
• CHEMICALS USED ON SPILLS
  Tags: BP Corexit cancer crude health_concerns
• Hands Off the People of Iran
  Tags: Iran blog anti-sanctions

backofthebook

• Dieppe and the Lost Myth
  By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
• That’s Canada Shop
  We’re delighted to introduce backofthebook.ca‘s new That’s Canada Shop, featuring Canadian books and music in all categories, with more products on their way. Get your Canada on, while you support independent journalism.
• The Plan, Part Deux
  By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
• The Plan
  By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
• McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
  By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...

Daily Beast

• 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
  David Plouffe calls the GOP campaign a ‘tripod of lies’ and more best moments from Sunday talk.
• Syrians Claim ‘Revenge’
  Rebel groups claim revenge in bomb attacks targeting the regime’s joint chiefs of staff.
• Bill Murray: Oscar Frontrunner?
  Bill Murray dazzles as former president FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson. By Marlow Stern.
• The Democrats' Convention Trap
  What should be a celebration of the president's accomplishments will instead be a minefield.
• Medical Consensus or Child Abuse? Moms On Meth ...
  It can be a catch-22 for new mothers addicted to opiates—doctors treat them with methadone while child-welfare caseworkers report them for continuing to use drugs. Rachel Blustain reports.

Loonwatch

• [Open Thread Sunday] Robert Spencer’s Wh ...
  Anti-Muslim propagandist Robert Spencer has put himself firmly in the camp of open white nationalists with an article published in Crisis magazine.
• Pakistani mullah ‘planted charred texts& ...
  The mullah at the centre of the furore surrounding Rimsha Masih has been accused of deliberately framing her by planting burnt Islamic texts.
• Lars Vilks defends decision to join Geller&#82 ...
  Swedish artist Lars Vilks has defended his decision to speak at an anti-Muslim conference in New York on September 11th, claiming he would also accept an invitation from the Ku Klux Klan.
• Eric Allen Bell: JihadWatch Zombie Still Obses ...
  Bell wants US to remove Kaaba.
• Iraq: After the Americans
  In a special two-part series, Fault Lines travels across Iraq to take the pulse of a country and its people after nine years of foreign occupation and nation-building.

Energy News

• Japanese study says ‘detonation’ occurred at U ...
• ENENews report is #2 news story on #1 late nig ...
• Gundersen: Just recently radiation puffed out ...
• Gundersen: They may not be able to pull out sp ...
• Nuclear Physicist on Fukushima: I’m most conce ...

Japan Times

• Remote islands to get business promo subsidies
  The land ministry will subsidize municipal attempts to promote tourism and other business activities on the nation's far-flung islands. The ministry will request several hundred million yen from the fiscal 2013 budget for the subsidies before a legal revision on remote island development takes ...
• Zero option for nuclear power may be added to ...
  Eliminating dependence on nuclear power is expected to be part of the government's revamped energy policy, officials say. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will reveal the new policy to his ministers after making a formal decision this month, government officials said Saturday.
• Mount Fuji draws 246,616 climbers
  Fine weather helped iconic Mount Fuji attract 246,616 climbers in July and August, up about 20,000 from last year, an official from the city that hosts the main starting point in Yamanashi Prefecture said. "In addition to good weather, mountain lodges and toilets were renovated for women, whil ...
• Ex-cultist Takahashi served warrant over Aum n ...
  Former Aum Shinrikyo cultist Katsuya Takahashi was served with a fresh arrest warrant Sunday over the abduction and murder of a Tokyo notary public in 1995, police said. Takahashi, 54, has been indicted on several charges, including over his involvement in the cult's deadly 1995 sarin gas atta ...
• Japan, U.S. to improve Pacific tsunami alerts
  The United States and Japan on Saturday agreed to work together to improve tsunami warning and mitigation systems for Pacific island countries, and to offer humanitarian assistance after natural disasters. Japan and the United States "reconfirmed the importance of 'equal partnership' and 'resp ...

Alexander Higgins

• The Conspiracy of an Empire: A Letter to Those ...
  To the professionals who serve in the institutions of our corrupt devoid of morals government that has destroyed the Constitution and the American way of life.
• Creators Tell What It Takes To Create A Stuxne ...
  As more sophisticated cyber espionage tools are discovered the media is still hiding the big picture about what really behind these programs.
• Justice Department Sued For Hiding Secret NSA ...
  The DOJ is being sued for failing to follow laws requiring information disclosure after US Senators revealed the NSA is illegally spying on US citizens.
• Armed Citizen Defends Unarmed Dollar General E ...
  Armed and dangerous? You bet! But only to criminals. Guns help to save the lives of law abiding citizens.
• Cop Tasers, Pepper Sprays, Kicks Defenseless M ...
  A cop who knew he was being videotaped kicks a defenseless man laying on the ground in the throat after tasing and pepper spraying him.

Macleans - Central

• PQ: English CEGEP and French students not to b ...
  A Quebecer wonders why a PQ government would prevent her from learning English
• This is the week that was
  Aaron Wherry on the jam-packed dog days of summer
• Pauline Marois among the people
  Paul Wells on an encounter with the PQ leader on the trail
• Bernanke raises questions: What exactly will t ...
  The chairman of the Federal Reserve said Friday that with unemployment 'a grave concern,' the Fed will do more if conditions don't improve
• The Maclean’s Photo Daily 5
  Weekend edition featuring the best photos to cross the photodesk at Maclean's

Making It Count - CCPA

• Unionization and Labour Market Performance
  Further to my earlier post on the “own goal” scored by the Fraser Institute report on North American labour markets, the Table below shows the rankings of the Canadian provinces – out of 60 states and provinces – for (1) labour market performance, 2007-11 and (2) the unio ...
• More Dead Money
  The sector and financial-flow accounts released with today’s GDP figures indicate an expansion of the pool of dead money flagged by this blog and by Mark Carney. The National Balance Sheet Accounts have not yet been released for the second quarter, so we cannot update the accumulated total of $5 ...
• Labour Market Regulation and Labour Market Per ...
  A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public se ...
• Raising Saskatchewan’s Minimum Wage
  Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The Leader-Post advocating a minimum-wage increase. Why higher wages make economic sense Recent Saskatchewan g ...
• Harper in the Arctic — the End of Ice Tour?
  News that multi-year Arctic sea ice was melting towards a record low did not put a dent in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern road show last week. So far in August, the Arctic has lost about 75,000 square kilometres of ice every day. To put this into perspective, the sea ice area be ...

ReDress

• Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
• Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
• Domestic terrorism American style
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
• Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
  Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
• Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
  Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...

Physics Today

• Graphene offers clear window on liquids
  BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
• Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
  Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
• No title
  Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
• Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
  Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
• Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
  Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Wholesale Cheap Outlet Cartier Sunglasses, Oak ...
  by hishoe10 (Posted Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:04 GMT) Description:Cheap Wholesale Catier Sunglasses & Cartier Eyeglasses Outlet, Sale Cheap Oakley Sunglasses & Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses, Cartier Rimless Glasses, Cartier Fullrim Glasses, Cartier Halfrim Glasses. Title：Cheap Cartier Sunglasses At www. ...
• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
  by (Posted Fri, 11 May 2012 22:32:08 GMT) Welcome to come here! The Asics Trainers has become one of the most popular brand nowadays. You will be satisfied when you meet the Asics Shoes. Orders are welcomed! Designed to keep up with discerning athletes, Asics Running Shoes offer advanced tech ...
• FF News: President Abdulla VS Shar Rukh
  by (Posted Fri, 11 May 2012 20:51:06 GMT) Welcome to come here! The Asics Trainers has become one of the most popular brand nowadays. You will be satisfied when you meet the Asics Shoes. Orders are welcomed! Designed to keep up with discerning athletes, Asics Running Shoes offer advanced tech ...
• New debt ceiling deal
  by (Posted Thu, 10 May 2012 19:14:16 GMT) Welcome to come here! The Asics Trainers has become one of the most popular brand nowadays. You will be satisfied when you meet the Asics Shoes. Orders are welcomed! Designed to keep up with discerning athletes, Asics Running Shoes offer advanced tech ...
• FF News: Wife Tips
  by (Posted Thu, 10 May 2012 14:16:46 GMT) Welcome to come here! The Asics Trainers has become one of the most popular brand nowadays. You will be satisfied when you meet the Asics Shoes. Orders are welcomed! Designed to keep up with discerning athletes, Asics Running Shoes offer advanced tech ...

Peakwater

• Water-transfer projects “essential&#8221 ...
  Photo retrieved from: www.chinadialogue.net “cd: We’ve seen a lot of public debate over water transfer projects. What role and impacts do regional water transfers have? How should we evaluate all the projects getting under way? See ”China’s South-North water transfer is ‘ ...
• Drought wreaks havoc on Indian farmers
  “The drought, India’s first since 2009, will not cause a shortage of staples as the nation’s grain stores are overflowing with rice and wheat, and sugar output is set to exceed demand for a third straight year. But the drought will deal a devastating blow to grain crops used fo ...
• Salmon Re-enter Olympic National Park River Th ...
  “The National Park Service reported this week that adult Chinook (king) salmon have been seen in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, less than five months after removal began on the Elwha Dam. According to the Park Service, the fish are the first of their kind known to enter the park ...
• Unicef Says Hardest Part Yet to Come in Provid ...
  “As World Water Week kicks off, UNICEF says that despite tremendous progress in the last two decades in bringing access to improved drinking water sources to billions of people, finishing the task is not going to be easy. “There have been outstanding gains in every region of the worl ...
• Bloomberg Backs Fracking – But Far From ...
  “Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday reiterated his commitment to fracking as a way of extracting natural gas from upstate New York — but said it shouldn’t occur near the network of reservoirs that feed drinking water to the city. “The mayor’s remarks come as New York Gove ...

D. Kucinich

• Victory For Voting Rights in Ohio
  Cleveland, Ohio (August 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement after a judge in Ohio overturned a state law and allowed in-person early voting leading up to the election in November. “Today is a good day for our democracy. This is a step in the right direct ...
• America Deserves a Raise
  This Labor Day, President Obama has the opportunity to defend the economic rights of millions of Americans by supporting a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Presently $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage is inadequate. The purchasing power of a worker earning minimum wage in 1968 is ...
• Kucinich Remembers Legacy of Neil Armstrong
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut who inspired all humanity:  “Neil’s voyage to the moon carried the hopes of a nation and reminded the world for all time that in America nothing is ...
• Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...
• Kucinich Honors Dear Friend at Memorial for th ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke at a crowded memorial ceremony for the late Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was a prolific author and a close personal friend to Congressman Kucinich as well as a public and vocal supporter of Congressman Kucinich’s political career. Also speaking at the m ...

Authentically Wired

• No title
  …It truly does not matter which political party symbol occupies the oval office as corporate owns the office regardless of the occupant … Goodbye, Liberty! 10 Ways Americans Are No Longer Free  …  Our struggle for liberty is a fight against concentrated wealth. August 29, 2012  … ...
• No title
  … And they did NOT read the Patriot Act either but they voted on it … John Boehner admits "No One Reads the Platform" 08-30-2012  •  http://www.dailypaul.com, by TN4RonPaul Amid all the cheers and jeers for the 2012 Republican Party platform, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ...
• No title
  …This is NOT the first occasion that Johnson Utilities has been caught with their pants down … and like before it’s not their fault, it’s someone else’s … I’m not buying it … but be my guest … believe it if you drunk enough of their “kook-aid” …   Johnson Utilities said Thursday their water ...
• No title
  … And “we” really don’t care, do “we” …? Important Omissions From Romney’s Convention Speech   Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech at the Republican Convention was long on biography but short on policy. The former Massachusetts governor reminded the national audience about his family’s backgrou ...
• No title
  … Time to recall that whenever any politician mouth moves … they lie … Fact checking Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech at the GOP convention   Posted by Glenn Kessler at 06:02 AM ET, 08/31/2012 …http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-mitt-romneys-acceptance-s ...

Popular Technology

• The Truth about Richard Muller
  "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
• The Truth about Judith Curry
  Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
• Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
  As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
• The Truth about SourceWatch
  SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
  A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
• Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
  Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
• Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
  When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Angry protests greet top players in GM
  A major conference bringing together the world's biggest players in genetic modification opened to the angry chants of protesters yesterday.The week-long international agricultural biotechnology conference is being described by...
• Cartoon: Fuel price madness
• Nobel laureates show students science of the f ...
  Some of the brightest young scientific minds in the Asia/Pacific region, including five students from New Zealand, yesterday completed a week-long immersion in cutting-edge science in Jerusalem featuring lectures by five Nobel Prize...
• NZ scientists running GM field trials
  Kiwi scientists are running experiments with genetically modified grass on foreign soil with a view to using the results to start field tests at home.The field trials are being done by the government-funded research body Pastoral...
• Revolutionary software aids coastal planning
  Revolutionary technology developed by a billionaire philanthropist will soon offer New Zealanders a new perspective of our coastline.The online program SeaSketch, tailored for New Zealand by United States researchers, will make...

The Bovine

• West Nile fear mongering and spraying
  From Ethan A. Huff, at Natural News: “(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently engaged in a massive fear mongering campaign that would have everyone in America believe that the so-called West Nile virus (WNv) is spreading … Continue reading ...
• Raw milk in Israel — now if we could jus ...
  From The Jerusalem Post: “In the inner recesses of Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood, a footpath leads to a capacious and open porch, showcasing two things in quantity: five dozen plastic jugs of milk neatly arranged, and a dozen siblings awestruck … Continue reading →
• Prosecutors and defense girding for the Hersch ...
  From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on  Jan. 7. … Continue reading →
• Montana Jones says CFIA returned to her farm t ...
  Link to this video just posted early Thursday morning on Facebook: Update posted by Montana Jones on FB 12:03 am Thurs. Aug. 30th: “CFIA ambushed Wholearth Farmstudio again this morning, arriving unannounced at 8:00 am to kill four of my … Continue reading →
• Psy-ops against Montana Jones?
  Montana Jones posted 3 hrs ago on Facebook: “CFIA AMBUSH ONCE AGAIN! my heart can’t take it…they are trying to kill 4 of my sweet lambs because they are ARQ bloodtype…not because of any disease. No no no no” Don’t … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Harrisburg to Run Out of Money in October; Ins ...
  Congratulations to Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, for having the highest per capita debt of any city in the country. The town's 50,000 citizens are on the hook for $1.5 billion according to the NPR article Inside America's Most Indebted City. The city has delayed payments to ligh ...
• Foreclosure Stats From You Walk Away
  Here are some interesting stats courtesy of Jon Maddux, CEO of You Walk Away. State% of You Walk Away Clients With No Foreclosure NoticeAverage Months Without Foreclosure Notice Washington79%13 Nevada79%13 Georgia75%12 Michigan73%18 Virginia72%18 Oregon69%13 Pennsylvania66%12 ...
• Spain's Budget Deficit Already Exceeds Maximum ...
  Spanish unemployment rate is 25% and rising. Youth unemployment is 52.9% and rising. Meanwhile Spanish budget deficits are such that Spain will need more austerity. I keep wondering what it will take for this setup to blow sky high in riots. Via Google Translate from Libre Mercado central g ...
• China, Germany to Settle More Trade in Yuan, E ...
  Inquiring minds note China, Germany Plan to Settle More Trade in Yuan, Euros. Germany and China plan to conduct an increasing amount of their trade in euros and yuan, the two nations said in a joint statement after talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beiji ...
• Brussels Pushes for Another "All Powerful" Ban ...
  Once nannycrats grab on to an idea, they never relinquish it. Eurobonds are the perfect example.  Many other idea float around despite numerous objections in key places. Some of these ideas involve creation of more commissions and more working groups. Here is a sampling of commissions ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The EyeOpener- Forced Vaccinations & the Death ...
  Nothing could be more antithetical to the very idea of individual freedom than to have governments telling us that we must put some substance in our bodies. Without ownership of our body and the attendant right to refuse this or that medicine as we see fit, we are nothing more than slaves of the ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
  Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...

bloody crossroads

• Is Obama a Fraud?
  The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
• The Tyranny of American Healthcare
  For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

• A New Twist to The Star Princess ALLEGED Faile ...
  Editor’s Note: Princess Cruises’ today released some new evidence that they say is proof that the small boat, picture right, that was spotted by a group of bird watchers on [...]
• Duncan, the Latest Type 45 Destroyer Sets out ...
  GLASGOW — DUNCAN, the sixth and final Type 45 destroyer built by BAE Systems, set sail today from the company’s Scotstoun shipyard to embark on her first stage of sea [...]
• How U.S. Naval Power Grew to Meet Mercantile A ...
  - By Alasdair Roberts (Bloomberg) — In the early years of the American republic, Sackets Harbor in upstate New York was one of the U.S. Navy’s most important ports, guarding access [...]
• U.S. Dockworkers’ Union Seeks Port Employers’ ...
  The International Longshoremen’s Association has sent a written request for final contract terms to the group representing U.S. East and Gulf Coast port employers. Talks on a new deal to [...]
• Vale to Sell Nearly a Dozen Ore Carriers
  Vale informed reporters today that it has signed a USD $600 million agreement to sell and further charter 10 large ore carriers with Polaris Shipping Co. Ltd.  Those vessels were acquired [...]

Press TV

• Nine militants killed in NW Pakistan
  Pakistani security forces have killed at least nine militants in the country’s northwestern Bajaur tribal region, Press TV reports.
• Fresh US drone strike kills 13 in Yemen
  A Yemeni police official says at least thirteen civilians have lost their lives in a fresh US assassination drone strike in the Arab state.
• French unemployment passes 3 million
  The French Labor Minister has announced that the number of registered French jobseekers has passed the symbolic figure of three million.
• Iran to raise oil field output
  Iran is to enhance recoverable oil from the onshore Nargesi Oil Field in the south of the country by 120 million barrels, National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) says.
• Iran to hold intl. visual arts festival
  Artists from 38 countries will take part in the 19th edition of Iran’s International Festival of Visual Arts for Young Artists in the northern Golestan Province.

SciDev.net

• African cooperation 'dropped from EU research ...
  Calls for research funding through EU's flagship FP7 programme backtracked on cooperation with Africa, risking a decline in partnerships, say critics.
• Global stem rust tracker unveiled in China
  Scientists have launched a monitoring system in response to the spread of deadly stem rust pathogens among wheat crops in Africa and Asia.
• Facing up to new realities for progress on tec ...
  Implementation of the Rio+20 outcome must account for changes in the global innovation landscape, says tech policy expert Ahmed Abdel-Latif.
• Recognising genuine innovation
  Pakistan's science establishment, though taken in by an implausible claim to fuel automobiles with water, cannot afford to lose the creative potential of true innovators, says Athar Osama.
• Asia–Pacific Analysis: Serving the public with ...
  The Magsaysay Awards hold an important lesson — science must get out of the lab and into people's hands, writes Crispin Maslog.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
  The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
• Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
  The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
• Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
  More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
• Presentation to the National Economists Club
  Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
• Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
  The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
  Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
• Eyes vote no to space travel
  Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
• Happiness is in your Right Hand
  How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
• Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
  The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
• Corals that can clone
  Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

Nick Turse

• "In 1961, when Ronald Reagan was defining hims ...
  “In 1961, when Ronald Reagan was defining himself politically, he warned that if left...
• VANDALS HAVE SPRAY-PAINTED MESSAGES ON WALLS O ...
  VANDALS HAVE SPRAY-PAINTED MESSAGES ON WALLS OF THIS SUBWAY STATION (116TH STREET): 05/1973 (NARA)
• nwkarchivist:Happy 75th, Golden Gate!
  nwkarchivist: Happy 75th, Golden Gate!
• historyofprotest:A women’s-liberation parade ...
  historyofprotest: A women’s-liberation parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York, in August, 1971.
• longreads:A look at how residents in Arkansa ...
  longreads: A look at how residents in Arkansas are dealing with the health implications of drilling for natural gas in their communities: Keith didn’t want to think about Iraq, but the tankers and water trucks reminded him of the vehicles he’d seen in Iraq’s oil fields. In Iraq, if an eightee ...

Related articles

• #Airflotilla3 | Israel attempts to foil a flight in solidarity with Palestinians(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)

  ---

• Israeli prison guards beat detained Palestinian MP Dr. Mohammed Al-Natshe(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)

  ---

• Jewish Soldiers reveals the Zionist Atrocities against Innocent Palestenians(jafrianews.com)

  ---

• Israel destroys Palestinian shops in Jerusalem in Line with it's Judaization schemes(windowintopalestine.blogspot.com)

  ---

• IOA escalates demolitions and confiscations in Yatta(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)

  ---

• Israeli courts reinforce civil rights violations(rayhanania.wordpress.com)

  ---

• IOA escalates demolitions and confiscations in Yatta(altahrir.wordpress.com)

  ---

• A Wake-up Call - Stuart Littlewood(veteransnewsnow.com)

  ---